The articles in this book are selected from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance from 2011 until 2019. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2019, he was awarded the Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography. He is the author of numerous books and articles including, for example, Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (2019) and Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (2018).

1. Introduction

John Agnew

Section 1: Territorial Perspectives

2. The territorialization of property in land: space, power and practice

Nicholas Blomley

3. Territory, Scale and Why Capitalism Matters

Kevin R. Cox

4. Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance

Bob Jessop

5. On the ecological blindspot in the territorial rights debate

Omar Dahbour

Section 2: Interrogating Territory

6. When Territory Deborders Territoriality

Saskia Sassen

7. Taking back control? The myth of territorial sovereignty and the Brexit fiasco

John Agnew

8. How Should We Do the History of Territory?

Stuart Elden

Section 3: Confines of Territory

9. Revisiting politicide: state annihilation in Israel/Palestine

Merav Amir

10. The intertwined geopolitics and geoeconomics of hopes/fears: China's triple economic bubbles and the 'One Belt One Road' imaginary

Ngai-Ling Sum

11. Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America

Nick Clare, Victoria Habermehl and Liz Mason-Deese