The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways still prevail today. Democratic politics is often analysed from the point of view of its institutions, citizens and voters, while little is said about the territory through which it is expressed – at most it provides a broader perimeter or context of political and institutional action. The book offers, instead, an introductory theoretically-oriented discussion of crucial issues such as the genesis of state-nation, the transformation of democratic citizenship, the current borders’ policies, the rising of territorial populism and the experience of 19-covid pandemic.
Author(s): Oscar Mazzoleni
Series: Palgrave Studies In European Political Sociology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2024
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 144
Tags: European Politics; Political Sociology; Cultural Geography
Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 Why and How Territory
Complexity and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
The Chapters
References
2 Strength and Limits of Unterritorial Approaches
Methodological Nationalism and Mass Society
Globalism and the Decline of the Nation-State
The End of the Ideologies and the Rise of Audience Democracy
Territorial Challenges
Neo-Nationalism and War
Walls and Security
Environmental Issues
Beyond Unterritorial Thinking?
References
3 Towards a Territory-Oriented Approach
Space
Political Institution and Territorial Institutionalisation
Strategies and Appropriations
Places
Territorializations
Borders
Scales
Networks
Towards a Territory-Oriented Research Agenda
References
4 Beyond the Territorial State?
State Construction
State Performer
Sovereignty
De-Territorialisation and Rescaling
New Urban Powers
Multi-Scaling Statehood
Sovereignism
Neo-Nationalism
Regionalist Contention
The Persistence of the State and the Legitimate Territorial Space
References
5 Changing Democratic Citizenship
Population and People
Democratic Authority and Territorial Rights
Citizenship, Nationality and Boundaries
The Migration Challenge
Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Beyond Territorial Rights?
References
6 Territorial Voting
Old and Territorial Cleavages
Multiple Territorial Divides
Rethinking Territorial Voting
References
7 Territorial Populism
A Controversial Concept
Specifying Populism
The Defence of the Territory
Border as a Logic and an Issue
Territorial Spaces of Mobilisation
Reconceptualising Populism
References
8 A Global Territorial Crisis
Lockdowns and Re-bordering
Proximities and Distance
Socio-Territorial Inequalities
The Territorial State Under Pressure
Pandemic as Politicisation
Beyond the Pandemic
References
9 Thinking Democratic Politics with Territory
Between Society and Political Institutions
Stable, Contingent and Politicised
References
Index
