territorialize

verb — 2 senses

territorialize

verb

Etymology From territorial + -ize.

1

To enlarge by extension of territory.

2

To reduce to the condition of a territory.

  • The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Derived terms
deterritorialize, reterritorialize, territorializable

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