TY - JOUR
T1 - Planting flags in water
AU - Koch, Natalie
N1 - Funding Information:
The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - In this commentary, I respond to James Riding and Carl Dahlman's article, ‘Montage space: borderlands, micronations, terra nullius, and the imperialism of the geographical imagination’. I build on their arguments about ‘more-than-dry landscapes’ to consider how the relationship between fluid and non-fluid landscapes sheds light on the construction and contestation of political space. To do so, I offer additional examples of how people plant flags in water, shedding light on the political implications of how physical territories are imagined, claimed, and sometimes, simply created at the fluid/non-fluid interface.
AB - In this commentary, I respond to James Riding and Carl Dahlman's article, ‘Montage space: borderlands, micronations, terra nullius, and the imperialism of the geographical imagination’. I build on their arguments about ‘more-than-dry landscapes’ to consider how the relationship between fluid and non-fluid landscapes sheds light on the construction and contestation of political space. To do so, I offer additional examples of how people plant flags in water, shedding light on the political implications of how physical territories are imagined, claimed, and sometimes, simply created at the fluid/non-fluid interface.
KW - Borders
KW - colonialism
KW - political geography
KW - territory
KW - water
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U2 - 10.1177/20438206221108770
DO - 10.1177/20438206221108770
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132787095
SN - 2043-8206
VL - 12
SP - 302
EP - 306
JO - Dialogues in Human Geography
JF - Dialogues in Human Geography
IS - 2
ER -