Beyond containers: internationality, interstateness, interterritoriality
The language of geography -- which employs container metaphors, eg, state, nation, & territory -- is augumented by suggesting new terms reflecting the heterogeneity of political geographic entities. It is argued that the multiplicity of states is not adequately addressed by such bounded notions...
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| Published in: | Progress in human geography 1995-03, Vol.19 (1), p.1-15 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The language of geography -- which employs container metaphors, eg, state, nation, & territory -- is augumented by suggesting new terms reflecting the heterogeneity of political geographic entities. It is argued that the multiplicity of states is not adequately addressed by such bounded notions of state & nation. A genealogy of the concepts of state shows that the notion of political division based on sovereignty conceived in the seventeenth century forms the basis for the current world system, but that this reality no longer holds. Similarly, the notions of territory & nation are examined historically. It is argued that internationality, interstateness, & interterritoriality are more accurate descriptions of contemporary political geographies. It is concluded that in the study of globalization, distinctions must be drawn between the newly emerging phenomena of interstate & transstate processes. 42 References. D. Karjanen |
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| ISSN: | 0309-1325 1477-0288 |