ABSTRACT
This book has explored various aspects of the construction of territories, the meanings attached to them and strategies associated with them. A range of examples has been utilized drawn from a variety of spatial scales ranging from the global to the local. These have contributed to a consideration of the ways in which territory is conceived, imagined and constructed. Attention has been drawn to the ways in which territory is often a major component of self-identity and, more significantly, group identity. Particular ideologies and social practices are manifested in space and territorial strategies are routinely employed to gain or to maintain power. A territorial frame is also regularly deployed in order to actively resist the imposition of power by dominant groups.
