Frontier spaces: territorialization and resource control

TY - JOUR

T1 - Frontier spaces

T2 - territorialization and resource control

AU - Rasmussen, Mattias Borg

AU - Lund, Christian

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The global expansion of markets produces frontiers of contestation over the definition and control of resources. In a frontier context, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification create new territories. A recently published collection (Rasmussen and Lund 2018) explores this emergence of frontier spaces as transitional, liminal, spaces in which existing regimes of resource control are suspended, making way for new ones. We argue that the new territorializations of resource control in a frontier space represent a set of processes that precede legitimacy and authority, fundamentally challenging and replacing existing patterns of spatial control, authority and institutional orders.

AB - The global expansion of markets produces frontiers of contestation over the definition and control of resources. In a frontier context, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification create new territories. A recently published collection (Rasmussen and Lund 2018) explores this emergence of frontier spaces as transitional, liminal, spaces in which existing regimes of resource control are suspended, making way for new ones. We argue that the new territorializations of resource control in a frontier space represent a set of processes that precede legitimacy and authority, fundamentally challenging and replacing existing patterns of spatial control, authority and institutional orders.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2246-6800

VL - 2018

JO - Policy Briefs (Copenhagen Centre for Development Research)

JF - Policy Briefs (Copenhagen Centre for Development Research)

IS - 01

ER -