Cosmopolitics of territoriality (continued)

The function of the seminar was to complement the lecture by taking a more detailed, case-study approach to the general question it addressed. The theme of the relationship to land was thus approached in different ways: either by examining, through concrete examples drawn from "analogist" collectives, the way in which human access to land and resources is mediated by very diverse institutions functioning as principles of totalization; or by returning to the European philosophical and legal sources of the conceptualization of modes of land appropriation and the new directions this conceptualization is now taking under the effect of the ecological crisis and growing inequalities. Following a general introduction to the theme of the seminar, the presentations examined these issues on the basis of detailedstudies .

Cosmopolitics of territoriality (continued)

Documents and media

Program

The ubiquity of the modern. Territorial sovereignty and global ecology

Spirits and powers of the site in Tulu country (South India). Current resilience of a regional inscription confronted with the universals of Hindu revivalism

Property as the ability to inhabit the land

When the spirits of the land want to eat buffalo. Cosmopolitics of sacrifice in the Indochinese peninsula, from the Kantu village to the Annam Empire

For a spatial theory of gender

From warriors to ancestors. Kanak practices of memory about the 1917 War (New Caledonia 1917-2011)

The commons and the question of sovereignty

The pastoral government of a sacred Malagasy royalty (18th-21st c.)

What the dead do to the country, what the country does to the dead. Geographies of autochthony in Mongolia

See also

The pastoral government of a sacred Malagasy royalty (^18th-21st c.)