On territorology: towards a general science of territory
Abstract
The development of territorology requires the overcoming of the dichotomy between determinist and constructivist approaches, in order to advance towards a general science of territory and territorial phenomena. Insights for this task can come from at least four main threads of research: biology, zooethology and human ethology; human ecology, social psychology and interactionism; human, political and legal geography; and philosophy. In light of the insights derived from these traditions, the article aims to conceptualize territorial components, technologies, movements, effects, and their interplay, in order to establish the main lines of inquiry for territorology. A general territorology, it is argued, amounts to a sociology of territorial acts and relations, whose aim is to analyze the expressive and functional components of territories, as fixed through their organizational and technological devices.
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Territory is not an absolute concept but is better conceived as an act or practice rather than an object or physical space.
“For example, Brighenti (2010:53) argues that territory is 'not an absolute concept but is better conceived as an act or practice rather than an object or physical space'.”
From Retail futures: Customer experience, phygital retailing, and the Experiential Retail Territories perspective (2025) · cites this paper as Brighenti, 2010
Territory has both expressive and functional components, formed by human and institutional relations, where boundaries become enactments, reinforcements, interpretations, and negotiations.
“It has both expressive and functional components, formed by human and institutional relations, where the boundaries of territory become a series of enactments, reinforcements, interpretations, and negotiations (Brighenti, 2010).”
From Retail futures: Customer experience, phygital retailing, and the Experiential Retail Territories perspective (2025) · cites this paper as Brighenti, 2010
This research contributes to territorology and place scholarship more broadly as one of the few studies applying the territory concept to retailing and the only known study to do so within a fashion context.
“Finally, this research contributes to territorology and place scholarship more broadly (Brighenti, 2010(Brighenti, , 2014;;Kärrholm, 2012) as one of the few studies applying the territory concept to retailing (Warnaby, 2018) and the only known study to do so within a fashion context.”
From Retail futures: Customer experience, phygital retailing, and the Experiential Retail Territories perspective (2025) · cites this paper as Brighenti, 2010
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Alexander, B., & Varley, R. (2025) · Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services · doi:10.1016/j.jretconser.2024.104108 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
- Authors
- Brighenti, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Department of Sociology, University of Trento,
- Venue
- Theory, Culture & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 52-72
- ISSN
- 0263-2764
- 1460-3616
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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