ABSTRACT
Historical enclosures that produce modern state formations do so not simply in terms of the scoring of territorial divisions and policing of social/political gatherings and separations. Those who are eradicated by the state, within the logic of enclosure, must become projects for re-radicalization as domesticated invasives, akin to controlled cultivation of exotic or heritage strains. The bio-feedback of displacements that the political ecologies of state formations bring on themselves through the logic of enclosures ensures that states inevitably confront, engage, and internalize what are for them environmental invasives. The political enclosures of state formations consist not only in the bordering and legal definition of territories or political spaces but even more in efforts to substantiate, symbolize, and give sense to material environment proper to each state whose vitality may be said to subsist within such borders and give ground to such laws. State formations are crucially instrumental, as territorialized entities, in capturing and rendering natural materials available for capitalist exploitation.
