ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discuss what is meant by territory and territoriality and how this relates to nationalism. They then examines in detail the means by which nationalist movements (whether state based or insurgent) utilize territory: by impacting the discursive landscape, through demarcation and bounding, expansion, genocide or removal, and cooptation. Following this, the authors also examine the role of networks as a kind of challenge to these territorial spaces. Territory intersects with our modern state system in so many ways that it is tempting to consider it as a natural part of human existence. Indeed, territorial strategies in some forms have been observed for humans and animals alike. There are a variety of ways in which a nation, as a cultural group, can utilize a fixed territory to advance its identity. Key to the development of the modern state system was the imposition of state territory.
