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social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global demographic change > deterritorialization and reterritorialization
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deterritorialization and reterritorialization  

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  • Deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes are spatial manifestations of contemporary changes under way in the relationship between social life and its territorial moorings. The two terms were originally employed in the 1970s in the work of French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who are often associated with poststructuralism and postmodernism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization]

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