Deterritorialization can also be defined as expansion outside a realm of territorial logic, separately from specific territorial locations or borders.
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Deterritorialization […] is an important concept to globalization. It refers to the increasing loss of literal and figurative borders between nation-states. […]
It also speaks to the loss of sovereignty, or the ability of a nation-state to govern independent of other nation-states. Multi-national organizations (e.g., World Trade Organization, United Nations) and multi-lateral agreements (e.g., GATS, GATT, TRIPS) create obligations and even laws which are at a level beyond that of the nation-state."
(Gender and Health,
Globalization Glossary, visited 2008-10-01)
"Examples [of
deterritorialization] range from the voluntary loss of sovereignty, for example, to tax or scrutinize accounts in the Cayman Islands, to the contracting out of services in UK Local Authorities, and to the fact that certain transnational corporations have more financial power, within a state than the state itself. In this context, commodities may be said to be deterritorialized when their components are sourced from a spatially wide range of locations.
The term can also be used to describe the eradication of a territory and its meanings, as in the razing of the Jewish quarter of Berlin under the Third Reich."
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Deterritorialization, Answers.com, visited 2008-10-01)
