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deterritorialization

deterritorialization

9.9
A process in which something loses its strong link to a particular place or culture
  • noun
  • /dɪˌtɛrɪˌtɔːriəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : deterritorialización
  • In this way, Johnston's narrative tracks the perverse effectiveness of residential school technologies of deterritorialization.
  • globalization and deterritorialization

Examples

  • Goodbye, Lenin tells a similar story of the sudden arrival of commodity culture and simultaneous deterritorialization of East Berliners at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Globalization, mobility, and deterritorialization have complicated the tasks of identity maintenance and of constructing and maintaining communities in the traditional geographic sense.

    Academic text (2016)
  • We see deterritorialization bringing about a crisis of subjectivity for the characters in the films.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Ermo's entrance into the global marketplace can also be read as a deterritorialization, which is represented through her psychic disorientation as she makes her way in the new territory of commodity production.

    Academic text (2010)
  • In Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah, the French scholar Olivier Roy argues that Muslims in the West often experience a trauma of "deterritorialization" because they feel estranged from their native lands.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The concept of deterritorialization helps explain how global cultures influence local identities.

  • The process of deterritorialization can lead to a loss of cultural heritage as communities adapt to new environments.

  • In sociology, deterritorialization refers to the ways technology alters traditional territorial boundaries.

Synonyms

deracination
vsdeterritorialization
  • Formal
1 9.9

Removal of people or communities from their original home

is a broader loss of connection to place or culture not physical removal
delocalization
vsdeterritorialization
  • Specialized
8.5

A loss of local identity and traditions in a community

is the wider process of losing connection to any specific place or culture

Antonyms

localization
  • Specialized
3 4.1

Changing a product so it fits the language and ways of people in a country

territorialization
  • Specialized
9.9

Organizing and marking an area as an official region for administration

Surface Forms

Morphology

deterritorialization = deterritorialize (semi-transparent) = de + territory + al + ize + ation

The noun is transparently formed from the verb 'deterritorialize' with the productive process suffix '-ation'.

Etymology

Deterritorialization breaks into de- meaning 'away' and territory meaning 'place' or 'land', so imagine something being pulled away from its home. So, deterritorialization is the process of losing a strong link to a particular place or culture.