By Allan Charles Dawson
This edited assortment disrupts dominant narratives approximately area, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in dialog with each other to light up the numerous ways that area turns into socialized through political, financial, and cognitive appropriation. Societies needs to, at the start, do greater than wrangle over possession and land rights — they need to reside in house. but, traditionally the interactions among the state’s territorial primary with past types of panorama administration have spread out in numerous methods, together with top-down imposition, resistance, and negotiation among neighborhood and exterior actors. those interactions have led to hybrid different types of territoriality, and are frequently fraught with essentially assorted perceptions of panorama. This e-book foregrounds those reviews and attracts consciousness to events within which varied social buildings of area and territory coincide, collide, or overlap. every one ethnographic case during this quantity provides varieties of territoriality which are contingent upon contested histories, politics, panorama, the presence or absence of neighborhood heterogeneity and the involvement of a number of exterior actors with differing motivations — eventually all leading to the potential of clash or collaboration and divergent implications for conceptions of group, autochthony and id.
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Sardinia or the mountains of the Mediterranean world are not unique in this regard. For instance, James C. Scott (2009) takes the wide diversity of languages, ethnicities and systems of socioeconomic organization on the Southeast Asian massif as evidence of its status as a so-called “shatter zone,” a place of refuge for nonstate populations to take shelter from the expansionist state-making projects in the lowland valleys. ” Histories of struggles against the state were a definitive element of Mediterranean highland zones, the cultural systems of which frustrated the hegemonic 38 Antonio Sorge claims of state centralization that effectively swallowed up the lowlands and created subject populations of peasants.