Territoriality is a key concept in how we understand the interaction between governmentality and the ways in which different communites use and dwell upon the land. However, it is also an unexplored area of inquiry - certainly in terms of comparative ethnography scholarship. This volume addresses the concept of territoriality, providing a broad spectrum of ethnographic case studies of spatial governance, shedding light on different forms of spatial organization and on how modern states have interacted with traditional societies' ways of using and managing territory.

1. Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition Ismael Vaccaro, Allan Charles Dawson and Laura Zanotti Europe 2. Between Communal Herding and State Parcellation: The Conflicting Territorialities of the Spanish Pyrenees Oriol Beltran and Ismael Vaccaro 3. Highland Sanctuary and the State: Mountains as a Political Category in Mediterranean History Antonio Sorge 4. The Invention of Terroirs, a Social Image for French Luxury Goods: Imagining Burgundy and Its Wines in the Inter-War Years Gilles Laferte 5. "None of Us Could Have Been Against Consolidation in Principle": A Short History of Market and Policy Failure in Central Eastern Europe Andrew Cartwright 6. Developing Discursive Ground: Exploring Activism and Territoriality in Slovakia's Environmental Movement from Communism to Cyberspace Edward Snajdr Settler and Mestizo Societies 7. Contested Border Crossings: Territorialities in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon Diana Steele and Laura Zanotti 8. Re-Territorialization and Rule in the United States: Insights from Conflict over the Management of Public Land Julie Brugger 9. Territoriality, Traditionality and Transformation in the Context of an Australian Native Title Claim Katie Glaskin 10. Territory to State: Law, Power, and Water in New Mexico Eric P. Perramond and K. Maria D. Lane Postcolonial Societies 11. Ancestors Shape the Land: Chieftaincy and Territoriality in Northern Ghana Allan Charles Dawson 12. Debating Belonging on Contested Land: Cultural Politics and Territoriality in Rural Kenya Scott Matter 13. Negotiating Territoriality in Eritrean Refugee Resettlement: Agrarian History, Mobile Livelihoods, and State-Making Amanda Poole 14. Insularity and Interconnection: Competing Territorial Imaginaries in the Marshall Islands Peter Rudiak-Gould and Jessica A. Schwartz 15. On the Threshold of Urban Hong Kong: Liminal Territoriality in New Kowloon Alan Smart and Tang Wing Shing