ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to discuss how space is constituted and produced at the margins of postcolonial states by taking an example from Latin America. It intends building on the old debate as to the constitution of space and nature of political control over space in the Andean context. The chapter focuses in particular on one aspect that was never clearly worked out in the earlier literature: how mobility and control over movement produces space and underpins spatial relations and imaginations. It addresses two questions: at what scales and through what forms of control and authority have territorializing regimes in the Andes conditioned mobility; and how have rural populations confronted overarching/overlapping regimes that sought to territorialise them. The chapter discusses the over-arching territorialising regimes characteristic of Andean political economy since colonial times. It finally explores how rural populations fashioned their own conceptions, perceptions and usages of space and how these practices were interwoven with and were opposed to over-arching territorialising regimes.
