Eastern Asia's revitalization of the state ideal through maritime territorial disputes

Yorgason, Ethan

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.09.012

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“…Recent conflicts over sovereignty in the South China Sea also illustrate how both fluid and non-fluid spaces are called into the material and rhetorical battleground of statist expansionism. In many ways, the region has been a laboratory for the Chinese government's effort to expand its territorial reach – including efforts to plant flags in the water itself or on contested islands, or to build new islands to expand its littoral zones (BBC, 2020; Rice et al, 2016; Yorgason, 2017). As the Dutch history of shoreline transformations suggest, actively building artificial islands is a long human tradition.…”

Section: Political Geographies Of the Fluid And Non-fluidmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planting flags in water

Koch

2022

Dialogues in Human Geography

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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.

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Section: Political Geographies Of the Fluid And Non-fluidmentioning

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Planting flags in water

Koch

2022

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…It illustrates the continued centrality of state power and the traditional geopolitical narratives of state-led grand strategy. At the same time, the states’ insistence on territorial preservation and integrity indicates the instability of territorial sovereignty and masks shifts in the effective control of space and political subjectivity (Raza and Shapiro, 2019; Yorgason, 2017). The research on the BRI also illuminates the dynamic interplay between intraregional and extraregional narratives: despite the emphasis on Chinese government policy in the official rhetoric, China constantly renegotiates its engagement with other parts of the world (Woon, 2018).…”

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Political geography III: Bounding the International

Kuus

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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This report focuses on the imaginaries and practices that demarcate space at the international and supranational scale. I will first review political geographic scholarship on region-making and regionalism, using the studies of Europe and the Belt and Road Initiative as examples, and I will then highlight some central themes in the current research on international borders. The report highlights the flexibility of bounding practices and the polymorphic character of borders. It underscores the resilience of state power and the transformations of sovereignty currently under way. It concludes by underscoring the interdisciplinary character of the relevant work.

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“…All of those territories lie far from the states' historical cores (see a similar critique from the Japanese scholar Yamabe Kentaro in 1965: quoted in Lee 1998, 54-55). The territories' historical relationships with states are roughly datable, and indeed contesting states focus considerable attention on those dates (Yorgason 2017). In addition, the roles of those territories to the people considered as the nations' cores were quite marginal historically.…”

Section: Synonyms Of Inherent Territorymentioning

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“…Viewed this way, greater prominence for the term "inherent territory" should not be desired. Its primary contribution to political communication seems to be to obscure and misrepresent a state's relationship to territory, both historically and normatively (Yorgason 2017). Yet perhaps this is an overly Western-centric and pessimistic view.…”

Section: Inherent Territory: a Uniquely Northeast Asian Term?mentioning

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International Political Implications of Language : The Linguistic Puzzle of “Inherent Territory”

Yorgason¹

2018

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The term "inherent territory" is commonly used to claim disputed lands within the Korean, Chinese, and Japanese languages. It is not common in English. This paper explores the phrase for the first time as a multilingual phenomenon, focusing especially on its implications for English. The term became internationally prominent after 1950 because of Japan's territorial dispute with the Soviet Union over the Northern Territories/Southern Kuril Islands. Japan gradually applied the term to its territorial conflicts with Korea and China. Over time, it became more prominent in both Korean and Chinese, as well. In addition to the Japan-Russia dispute, it now is used in official language in the Dokdo-Takeshima, Diaoyu-Senkaku, and South China Sea territorial disputes. With its increased usage across Northeast Asia, including in English translation easily available on the Internet, the term has strong potential to become common usage in English with respect to territorial conflicts outside of Northeast Asia. Yet, that potential has not been realized. This paper explores possible reasons why English speakers are reluctant to use "inherent territory" through a close political-discursive-linguistic analysis. This paper also discusses the term's potential power if it becomes more popular in English. The article addresses "inherent territory's" lack of status within international law, translation issues, the multiple meanings of inherent, connections between "inherent" and "inherit," the metaphysics of inherent, and the issue of standards through which to evaluate claims to "inherent territory." The paper explains why the English "inherent territory" is simultaneously vague, potentially powerful, and deeply problematic.

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Eastern Asia's revitalization of the state ideal through maritime territorial disputes

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Planting flags in water

Planting flags in water

Political geography III: Bounding the International

International Political Implications of Language : The Linguistic Puzzle of “Inherent Territory”

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