Representations of the (Extra)territorial: Theoretical and visual perspectives

Cedric Ryngaert

doi:10.18352/ulr.378

Abstract

Progressive, post-realist scholarship engaging with the ‘end of geography’ has observed that State borders have become porous due to increased communication, travel and migration opportunities, as well as the emergence of global, cosmopolitan values. Individuals’ primary allegiance may no longer, as a matter of course, be with the State in which they reside or with their fellow nationals. Individuals and collectivities may have relations to, and even duties towards, ‘others’ in far-flung places. Borders, in this view, are accidents of history, enclosing an arbitrarily bounded space that is no longer in keeping with the sociological reality of global human interdependency. This mini-special issue of the Utrecht Law Review has set itself the task of inquiring as to what the evaporation of borders means for conceptualizations of (extra)territoriality, sovereignty and jurisdiction.

Highlights

Representations of the (Extra)territorial: Theoretical and visual perspectives Cedric Ryngaert*Progressive, post-realist scholarship engaging with the ‘end of geography’ has observed that State borders have become porous due to increased communication, travel and migration opportunities,[1] as well as the emergence of global, cosmopolitan values.[2]
Individuals and collectivities may have relations to, and even duties towards, ‘others’ in far-flung places.[3]. In this view, are accidents of history, enclosing an arbitrarily bounded space that is no longer in keeping with the sociological reality of global human interdependency. This mini-special issue of the Utrecht Law Review has set itself the task of inquiring as to what the evaporation of borders means for conceptualizations ofterritoriality, sovereignty and jurisdiction
The contributions were presented at a conference organized on 22-23 April 2016 by the UNIJURIS project, a research project on unilateral jurisdiction and global values based at Utrecht University School of Law.[6]

Summary

Introduction

Representations of the (Extra)territorial: Theoretical and visual perspectives Cedric Ryngaert*Progressive, post-realist scholarship engaging with the ‘end of geography’ has observed that State borders have become porous due to increased communication, travel and migration opportunities,[1] as well as the emergence of global, cosmopolitan values.[2]. This mini-special issue of the Utrecht Law Review has set itself the task of inquiring as to what the evaporation of borders means for conceptualizations of (extra)territoriality, sovereignty and jurisdiction.

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