Two related ideas that connect to territory as political space:
As Flint explains, territoriality is the power exercised through the construction and management of territory.
The film clip “The Magnificent African Cake” you watched in the first section (Geography & Politics) of this lesson, illustrates the messiness of sovereignty claims that highlight the tensions around the concept of territory (and territoriality) on the African continent.
Lesson 5 will explore the geopolitics of territory more fully, but, for now, it’s important to understand that “(t)erritory is both a fundamental building-block of geopolitics and something that is fluid over time and varies across space.” (Flint, 2016, p. 34)