TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strandsbjerg,Jeppe
TI  - Territory, globalization and international relations: the cartographic reality of space 
SN  - 9780230580831 (hardback)
AV  - JC319 .S77 2010
U1  - 327.101 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Human territoriality
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - International relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-175) and index; Introduction --- The State of Territory --- Reclaiming a Spatial Reality --- The Cartographic Foundation of Territory --- The Cartographic Formation of a Global World --- The Cartographic Formation of Denmark --- Conclusion
N2  - This book addresses one of the core concepts across the social sciences: territory. Social theory has struggled to conceptualize territorial space in the nexus between the 'state' and 'global change'. This innovative book argues that the discussion of territorial change remains trapped within a dual tension between subjectivist and objectivist accounts of space, and a flawed dichotomy between global and territorial space. In order to address these problems, this book analyzes the history of cartography as a way to understand the nature of modern political space. From the 15th to the 17th century European cartography underwent a transformation establishing a new reality of space that conditioned the possibility of developing centralised sovereign territorial states within a unified global framework. This so-called modern cartography produced space as an autonomous sphere based on abstract mathematical principles. To understand the relationship between territory and globalisation we have to understand that both depend on a cartographic reality of space. This has profound implications for our understanding of political identity, changes associated with globalization, and explains why state territory has proven such a persistent dimension in global politics. -- Back cover
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