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 .