Thus, while territories can be defined by the borders between countries, they are also manifested in everyday life when we are confronted with signs saying “authorized personnel only,”“keep out,”“no trespassing,”“strictly no admittance,” and so on. The idea of home as private space,...
45S. Hahn,A Nation Without Borders. The United States and Its World in the Age of Civil Wars1830–1910: The Penguin History of the United States, New York: Viking, 2016, p. 2; for the im-portance of war to empire-building, see F. Anderson and A. Cayton,The Dominion of War:...
52 The same holds true for the Low Countries, where the borders of the bishopric of Utrecht were mainly and roughly formed by the (old) courses of the Meuse and Waal/Rhine rivers. Due to the presence of extended and unreclaimed peatbogs, the boundaries between the bishoprics of Utrecht ...
During the rapid process of urbanization in post-reform China, cities assumed the role of a catalyst for economic growth and quantitative construction. In this context, territorially bounded and well delimited urban cells, globally known as ‘gated commu
The focus would be building knowledge-intensive value chainsand inserting networks into a scalar as well as spatial division of labour byreducing the frictions of national borders. Second, a neo-liberal, finance-dominated accumulation regime would prioritize the telematic space of flowsover territory ...