1. TERRITORY & MAPPING
Technologies of claiming space
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2. Terra means land, earth, nourishment, sustenance; it
conveys the sense of a sustaining medium, solid, fading
of into indefiniteness. But the form of the word [Oxford
English Dictionary] says, suggests that it derives from
terrere, meaning to frighten, to terrorize. And Territorium is
a “place from which people are warned”. Perhaps these
two contending derivations continue to occupy territory
today. To occupy a territory is to receive sustenance and
to exercise violence. Territory is land occupied by
violence.
-William Connolly (1996, 144)
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3. THE TERRITORY OF
TERRITORY
Territory as a ‘noun’ (a thing, a place)
Territory at a range of scales (the nation-state, the
home, the office, Harbour Centre, Vancouver General
Hospital, the Archdiocese of Toronto
Signalled by meaningful boundaries (fences,
checkpoints, ‘Bienvenue a Québec’, ‘Keep Out’)
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4. TERRITORY AS A THING
Political space
“Bounded social spaces
that inscribes a certain
sort of meaning onto
defined segments of the
material
world” (Delaney 2005)
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5. TERRITORIES AT
DIFFERENT SCALES
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6. MARKING TERRITORY
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7. TERRITORIALITY
Refers more to
the relationship
between
territories and
Text some other social
phenomena
(racism, power,
labour)
Kowloon Walled City (China): The once most
densely populated place in the world
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8. TERRITORIALITY
Treats territory
less as an inert
‘thing’ and more
as an aspect of
various
dimensions of
social life.
Sidewalk utility markings designate space and
produce a particular, specialized, technical
meaning. (More on this later).
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9. TERRITORY AS A VERB
Geographers talk of ‘deterritorializing’ and
‘reterritorializing’ (linking territory/territoriality to
globalization)
Verbs need subjects: who territorializes?
What are the means by which we territorialize, what
are territorializing practices?
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10. 99% INVISIBLE
A podcast about design--with
a focus on the little details
99% of us miss: the colour of
money, old fashioned systems
of trash removal, logo design
and more.
Above: Philadelphia’s LOVE
Park and, Right: Techniques
of Territoriality, or Anti-
Skater ‘Bumpers’
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11. CLAIMING SPACE
What approaches do
we see utilized to
claim space?
Are some spaces
claimed by more than
one party? How do
we legislate
seemingly competing
claims to space?
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12. MAPPING TERRITORY
One way we make space is
by representing space, a
kind of representational
power embedded in the
technologies of GIS,
mapping, and place-naming
as techniques of spatial
knowledge production.
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13. CALCULATION AND
CONTROL
Are maps predictive? Do
they represent or do they
perform a kind of reality
about the relationship
between people and space?
How do maps produce
legibility and visibility?
Why is seeing important?
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14. PROJECTS OF VISIBILITY
& LEGIBILITY
The wide-open spaces of Brasilia are centred on
projects of ‘state power’, property maps, house
numbering
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15. ALTERNATIVE MAPS
CHALLENGE THE REPRESENTATIONAL
POWER OF MAPS
Map comparing the relative size Housing foreclosures in New
of Europe/North Africa to North Haven, Connecticut (home of
America. Yale University)
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16. ALTERNATIVE MAPS
CHALLENGE THE REPRESENTATIONAL
POWER OF MAPS
Participatory renaming of streets The lines of the London
in Cambridge, Massachusetts Underground as stitched on rice
(home of Harvard University) paper
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17. POP VS. SODA
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18. RENDITION FLIGHTS
Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen maps secret CIA rendition flights, the
process by which detainees in the GWOT were shuffled to locales that legalize
torture for interrogation. This map was published and made into a billboard.
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