Territory and Democratic Politics : : A Critical Introduction.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology Series
• Author: Mazzoleni, Oscar.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- 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.