Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415744296 ISBN 13: 9780415744294

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. Societies must, first and foremost, do more than wrangle over ownership and land rights ― they must dwell in space. Yet, historically the interactions between the state’s territorial imperative with previous forms of landscape management have unfolded in a variety of ways, including top-down imposition, resistance, and negotiation between local and external actors. These interactions have resulted in hybrid forms of territoriality, and are often fraught with fundamentally different perceptions of landscape. This book foregrounds these experiences and draws attention to situations in which different social constructions of space and territory coincide, collide, or overlap. Each ethnographic case in this volume presents forms of territoriality that are contingent upon contested histories, politics, landscape, the presence or absence of local heterogeneity and the involvement of multiple external actors with differing motivations ― ultimately all resulting in the potential for conflict or collaboration and divergent implications for conceptions of community, autochthony and identity.

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About the Author

Allan Dawson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drew University.

Laura Zanotti is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University.

Ismael Vaccaro is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415744296
• ISBN 13: 9780415744294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Dawson Allan Charles, Zanotti Laura, Vaccaro Ismael