Political Space: Autonomy,Liberalism,and Empire

Abstract

Many attempts to think about contemporary politics express spatial metaphors affirming a close association between political space and the territorial state. On the basis of an analysis of the general consequences of such metaphors in relation to recent literatures on empire or globalization, this article examines the way they enable cartographies of violence associated with the “global war on terror” and the reinscription of national strategies of “security.”