Territories, Environments, Politics

Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Professor of Social Theory and Space and Culture at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. His research topics broadly cover the relationships between space, power and society. His most recent book is The Crowd’s Common. Towards Canettian epistemology (forthcoming 2022). His research website is www.capacitedaffect.netMattias Kärrholm is Professor of Architectural Theory at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University. His research areas include: architecture, social sciences, territoriality, public space, urban design, architectural theory, space & culture. Monographs include Animated Lands. Studies in Territoriology, co-authored with Andrea Mubi Brighenti, and Retailising Space (Ashgate 2012, second ed. Routledge 2016).

• Introduction: The stake of territoriesAndrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm1. The state of territory under globalization: Empire and the politics of reterritorializationStuart Elden2. How the non-human turn challenges the social sciences: The case of environmental struggles at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, FranceSylvaine Bulle3. Commercial drones and the territorialisation of the air: Towards an aero-volumetric understanding of power and territoryFrancisco Klauser4. Inhabiting together: Manure contracts and other territorial compositions between pastoralism and agriculture in Western Burkina FasoAlexis Gonin5. Territory glimpsed through Lache Eyes: A tale of non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic excursions in liminal spaceLes Roberts6. Affirmatively reading deterritorialisation in urban space: An Aotearoa/New Zealand perspective Manfredo Manfredini7. Rendering territory (in)visible: Approaching urban struggles through a socio-territorial lensAnke Schwarz and Monika Streule8. The territorialisation of the grocery shopper: Eco-ethical asceticism and environmental nostalgiaMattias Kärrholm and Anna Petersson9. The territories of music in public space: Scenes from Warsaw and LisbonCláudia Casquilho, Pedro Gonçalves, Caio Mourão, Paula Nunes and Daniel Paiva10. Passage territories: Reconstructing the domestic spatiality of an Indonesian urban kampungKristanti Dewi Paramita11. Dodging rocks and baseball bats: Stories of territory, tourism and trespassing in Detroit neighborhoodsPaul Draus and Juliette Roddy

"This thoughtful and rich volume is edited by two of today’s foremost scholars of territoriality and the city. It offers a novel re-visioning of issues of territorial complexity and a wide range of urban examples of spatialised social life across different scales and cultural contexts. A very timely and highly original publication that will be a source of inspiration both for researchers and practitioners across disciplines." Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK "As evinced by the scope and depth of the contributions to this volume, Kärrholm and Brighenti’s program for a "non-reductive territoriology" offers a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of territories which promises to provide inspiration and creative openings for groundbreaking research on the nature and implications of territorialization process and practices for many years to come." Jonathan Metzger, KTH Stockholm, Sweden "In times of dramatic planetary changes, it is all the more urgent to reflect on the ontological grounds that orient thinking, sensing, and acting in the world. This volume is a convincing move in this direction. Against the grain of decades of reductionist and politically ambiguous interpretations, Brighenti and Kärrholm prompt us to rethink what territories are, how are they made and by whom, by drawing the lineaments of an original Science of Territory that is transversal to hard and soft science, art, politics, and the everyday. This transdisciplinary ambition is reflected on the impressive theoretical, empirical, and methodological diversity of the original contributions that compose the publication, making it an invaluable tool for conjuring new ways of speculating, researching and imagining the material complexity of socio-natural life." Andrea Pavoni, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal