Processes Of Deterritorialization Research Articles

Capitalist Dreams, Posthuman Nightmares: AI and the Neoliberal Reordering of Humanity in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

ABSTRACT This article examines the portrayal of AI in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun through Deleuze and Guattari’s framework of the twofold movement of capitalist deterritorialization and reterritorialization. It highlights how neoliberal capitalism leverages AI to create new markets, reinforces social inequalities, and ultimately alienates individuals from their communities and identities through processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The commercialization of AI reflects capitalist dynamics, disrupts social interactions, and challenges human moral choices. The analysis reveals how AI contributes to technological divides, human displacement, and the creation of new territories of alienation and economic disparities. Both novels serve as cautionary tales, depicting dystopian futures where AI-driven automation leads to widespread unemployment and social unrest, highlighting the potential for AI to exacerbate existing inequalities. The novels expose the profit-driven promise of technological progress – particularly the allure of increased productivity and efficiency – and its impact on society. This paper emphasizes the urgent need for a critical reflection on the ethical and social implications of AI to ensure a more equitable and human-centered technological future.

Multi-landscapes of Hà Nội in three poetic generations of ethnic minorities

Born with the August Revolution in 1945, the generations of modern Vietnamese ethnic minority writers form their own appearance, contributing to creating unique voices and identities. In this paper, we argue that three generations of ethnic minority poets, which represent three waves of writers, create three types of geographical landscapes of Hanoi. Firstly, the country’s capital in wartime is portrayed vaguely in the dreams of the periphery. It is a central geographical entity that holds the beliefs and aspirations of the entire nation. Secondly, Hanoi is presented through its everyday appearance, which is full of contradictions that make residents leave and dream of an idealised mountainous region. Finally, Hanoi is described as a decentralised metropolis through the gazes of ethnic minority poets who were born in Hanoi. This creates in their poetry the process of deterritorialization, i.e. the process of becoming the Other. It can be said that geographical shifts have created new spaces, thus giving people different concepts of home.

Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production: the case of wild berries in Sweden

AbstractRecent geopolitical and economic crises underline the need for a European transition towards a more sustainable food system. Scholars and policymakers have called for a re-territorialization of food production to strike a better balance between local, regional and global value chains. This paper explores the role of re-territorialization through an analysis of the emergence, development and current transformation of the Swedish wild berry value chain. The analysis combines the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions with a socio-techno-ecological system approach and draws on interviews, informal conversations, participant observations and a range of secondary sources. The resulting case narrative shows how processes of de-territorialization may result in regimes that fail to address sustainability potential and problems. It also highlights that processes of re-territorialization challenge established regimes by promoting niches that represent different, albeit complementary, value chain configurations. Apart from a rich empirical narrative that brings useful knowledge to stakeholders to the Swedish wild berry value chain, the paper contributes to the theoretical understanding re-territorialization, shows how the ecological dimension can be accounted for with the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions and presents a number of general policy implications.

Affixing the Nomads: Revisiting Marx’s Theory of “So-Called Primitive Accumulation” with a Deleuzo-Guattarian-Inspired Theory of the Colonial State

This essay tests Karl Marx’s theory of primitive accumulation on nomadic and seminomadic populations. Drawing on a comparative historical-sociological analysis of nomadic communities in North Africa and North America, it argues that in primitive accumulation, the control of mobility is as central as that of land enclosure. It theorizes the role of the colonial state as an apparatus of capture that operates not only through enclosure but through processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. For the colonized, this historical and continuous process of primitive accumulation operates through a double enclosure: land and mobility. For the empire, this process consolidates imperialism and statehood. Primitive accumulation deployed by a colonial state is empire making. This essay thus agrees with indigenous and critical scholars about the race-making function of primitive accumulation and provides a theoretical foundation regarding the primitive accumulation of mobility relevant to—but occulted by—the field of the sociology of migration.

Gestão pesqueira e Colonialismo: desterritorialização e r-existências na comunidade pesqueira artesanal da Praia do Siqueira/RJ-Brasil

Abstract Colonial domination, established from the 15th century onwards, remains as a founding element of modern western rationality,, acting as invisibly as efficiently in the production of subalternities. In the epistemological dimension, the coloniality of knowledge institutionalizes the role of modern science in the discrimination of knowledge between false and true. Decolonization as an unfinished project, associated with authoritarian fisheries management models, has forged contexts of environmental injustice. As a factual example, we analyze the imposition of a period of suspension of fishing activity in Lagoa de Araruama-RJ, based on the narratives of the artisanal fishing community of Praia do Siqueira, located on its banks. In developing the research, non-extractive/participatory methodologies were used. It is concluded that the imposed calendar intensifies the processes of deterritorialization of the community, however, despite the violence, these spaces are percolated by r-existence practices.

Sinophone becoming in Wong Kar-wai’s in the mood for love (2000)

Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000) tells the story of Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen, who, in learning that their spouses are engaged in an affair, fall in love themselves. However, in vowing to “never be like them,” Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen abandon their affections and, by the end of the film, go their separate ways. As many have suggested, In the Mood for Love is as much a melodramatic love story as it is an allegory of Hong Kong’s precarious political situation since the British handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. But rather than understanding the failure of their relationship in the limited sense of Wong’s representation of the difficulties ahead for Hong Kong’s political reunification with China, we argue that In the Mood for Love should be read as Wong’s portrayal of an opening to a form of life and identity that resists the narrative of Chinese essentialism often purported by the CCP. We explore this potentiality by examining how Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen’s role-playing of their spouses’ affair, the film’s non-linear sense of time and the continual juxtaposition and confluence of East and West through dress, food, and music function as constructs of Gilles Deleuze’s crystal image. We further contend that the film’s repeated use of the crystal image suggests a Deleuzian reading of the potential processes of deterritorialization and, what we call, Sinophone becoming for both individuals and communities that constitute the Chinese diaspora.

Boys Don't Cry: On the Radical Unsaturation of Gender Dichotomy.

Using Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of "becoming" and the "rhizome," as well as Bion's discussion of the interaction between the "establishment" and the "messianic idea," the author analyzes Boys Don't Cry (1999), a film that presents the story of a young transgender man who was raped and murdered. The author focuses on how the radical unsaturation of gender dichotomy may turn into an unbearable threat as it turns the linear, hierarchical "tree-like" relations of body and mind into a process of deterritorialization.

COVID-19, commuter territories and the e-bike boom.

The appearance and integration of e‐bikes in public space is a source of much debate worldwide. This paper offers insights to these debates by reflecting on how Deleuze and Guattari's concept of assemblage as territory helps us to understand the uptake of e‐bike commuter cycling during the Covid‐19 pandemic through empirical material from a study conducted in Sydney, Australia. Here we conceptualise commuter journeys in terms of processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation; experienced through the affective territories generated by e‐bikes. The disclosure of commuter cycling sensations generated by the pandemic disruptions to commuter routines provided an important lens through which to understand the uptake of e‐bikes. The paper concludes by showing the utility of the concept of territory as a means of theorising changes to everyday mobility practices.

LSTM-RNN-FNN Model for Load Forecasting Based on Deleuze’s Assemblage Perspective

Reliable load forecasting is essential for electricity generation and even for people’s lives. However, the existing load forecasting theories cannot match the requirements of complex systems (e.g., smart grids). Deleuze’s metaphysical complexity theory is seen as the theoretical foundation for comprehending complex systems, and thus, a new perspective based on Deleuze’s assemblage concept is given. According to the assemblage perspective, the electrical load is a quantitative representation of the mutual becoming of people and electricity, and load forecasting is an attempt to control this continuous process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. We built an LSTM-RNN-FNN model for load forecasting based on the assemblage perspective, and the assessment results demonstrated that the model has high prediction performance. Furthermore, the performance of adding the temperature parameter into the network is also tested, while the correlation between the temperature and load is not strong enough and may not be suitable for load prediction. The assemblage perspective has significant implications for future load forecasting and potentially smart grid research.

Nature, a Love Story: Marie Nimier’s éco-critique in La Plage

Marie Nimier’s recent fiction highlights the importance of natural ecology in the fictional protagonist’s search for self and for reparations with the past. In La Plage (2016), the juxtaposition of the Anthropocene’s disastrous destruction of nature with the emotional catastrophes of a heroine known to the reader simply as “l’inconnue” provides the background for a story of healing and redemption. Among the many aspects of the text that metaphorize its subject—the search for a new language, the return to a metaphorical Garden of Eden of childhood, reassemblages of relationships in the past and present—, is that of the protagonist’s emergence as a “terrestrial” in Bruno Latour’s sense of the word, that is, as part of a network of actors engaged in saving the planet. Through a process of deterritorialization on the “plage,” equated with the “page,” she discovers a renewed, hopeful language and a belief in love. A story of re-writing, re-living, and re-building one’s memories in and with nature leads to a regeneration of the human belief in a future for the planet.

Un chevalier errant à la recherche du Nord. Le boréalisme dans Don Quichotte de Cervantes

There are few studies on the concept of nordicity in Spanish-language literary texts. Hardly any of them focuses on the works of Miguel de Cervantes, apart from interpretations of his novel Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, whose plot is partly set in Europe’s most northern reaches. However, borealization, as a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of images of the North used by the South itself, can be an effective means of unearthing complex and contradictory significances of the relationships between characters, landscapes, and national values. The article analyses how the knight-errant Don Quixote explores the landscape of La Mancha as a borealized realm in which he attempts to find his North amidst the contradictory values of a nation.

Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective

In the Nordic countries sport has a particular connection to civic society, and this is reflected in the Nordic governments ‘sport for all’ policies. The region also includes large voluntary non-profit sport organizations with an implicit monopoly on competitive sport. During the last decade scholars in Sweden have noted that commercial entrepreneurs have emerged in the child and youth sports landscape. However, empirical research on this phenomenon is scarce. Hence, in this article the aim is to map different commercial businesses and the services they offer on their websites. We make use of a Deleuzioguttarian inspired theory and method and a post-qualitative research practice, which is informed by an ontological (re)turn to realism(s) in social theory. We present four different commercial de-territorialization processes and discuss how they affect the Swedish Sport Confederation in different ways.

Da mineração à hidrelétrica: a face recente das dinâmicas territoriais na Amazônia Oriental Brasileira

Since the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, Amazon has become the focus through public and credit policies to privilege the interests of capital over traditional people (riverine people, fishermen, quilombolas, indigenous people), secular settled population, and other subjects (landless workers, those settled in agrarian reform projects). They are forcibly deterritorialized in this logic of integration of national and international capital in the exploration and production of commodities in this space. This work aims to portray the recent perspective of the last two decades of territorialization process of international interest, with the inflow of large capital resources, such as mining, and hydroelectric energy production. The methodology used was the case study, with interviews, documentary and bibliography research. These enterprises, of great magnitude of socio-territorial transformations, tend to provoke a new process of deterritorialization of hundreds of families of rural workers, as in the case of those settled in agrarian reform projects, riverine people, quilombolas, and indigenous people.

Between territories and knowledge practices. Challenges with indigenous teacher training in Brazil

In Brazil, indigenous claims for the right to maintain their specific ways of living and thinking, maintaining and using their own languages, cultures, and modes of production, and the re-elaboration and transmission of knowledge have resulted in the development of intercultural teacher training programs in Brazilian universities. The discussions presented here take as a reference the experiences of the authors in the Intercultural Training Course for Indigenous Educators (FIEI) developed and offered at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) since 2006. We highlight significant aspects of the training of indigenous teachers in the constant flow between villages and university in progressive processes of deterritorialization and reciprocal recognition. We present the approach to the notion of territory that supports our analysis and describe three curricular components of the course from the perspective of different territorialities: the teaching internship, the intermodules in a specific qualification, and the research monographs resulting from “academic paths.” We conclude that the FIEI experience is not only a training process for indigenous students, but it also engenders the transformation of everyone involved.

O rizoma e as voltas que o mundo dá

Breve discussão sobre ciência da informação e ciência de dados, tomando ambas as disciplinas como pretexto para discutir a lógica rizomática que as relaciona, redirecionando o problema fora dos quadros da representação disciplinar; apresenta a lógica rizomática onde a linha de fuga traduz processos de desterritorialização necessários â formulação de novos agenciamentos não representativos, com ênfase para conceitos filosóficos de autores neodocumentalistas, como ‘moderna tradição da documentação’, ‘documentalidade’ e ‘documentaridade’.

Landscaping an Ecuadorian neighborhood in Queens, NY

Diaspora studies on migration communities have shown how these transnational groups appropriate the new space in the receptive country through a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. These processes involve a reinterpretation and reconceptualization of the linguistic relationship between the language of the diaspora group and those spoken in the new home. One of the most visible places where this contextual relation must be negotiated is in the public sphere, where language, culture and identity are inevitably interwoven (Blackwood, Lanza & Woldemariam, 2016). Using a multimodal approach and using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this article analyzes how an Ecuadorian-American community in Queens transformed the linguistic landscape of their surroundings to make it similar to what this community had in their home country.

ESCOLA DA INFÂNCIA, CIDADE E DEMOCRACIA: EM BUSCA DO EXERCÍCIO DA CIDADANIA INFANTIL

Este artigo é um diálogo entre perspectivas que pensam a educação das crianças em articulação com a visibilidade e a garantia do direito ao espaço urbano das cidades. Trata- se de um recorte da tese de doutorado de Canavieira (2019) que aborda concepções e práticas democráticas na Educação Infantil. Partimos dos estudos de Sennett (2016 e 2016), Lefebvre (2001), Lopes (2006 e 2018), tendo como objetivo principal evidenciar concepções que catalisam a integração dos bebês e das crianças pequenas na cidade, através das instituições de Educação Infantil e a relação espaço público e político. Defendemos as possibilidades de territorialização das crianças no espaço urbano como exercício da prática democrática e da cidadania e a potência da Educação Infantil nesse processo, problematizando os elementos do processo de desterritorialização do corpo infantil no espaço público. Para tanto, discutimos a ideia de território educativo cunhado na realidade da Educação Infantil Paulistana. Defendemos que a intencionalidade político-pedagógica ancorada em princípios democráticos pode garantir às crianças pequenas o direito à cidade, e a formação de corpos, mentes e subjetividades cidadãs.

Towards a conceptual understanding of dispossession – Belo Monte and the precarization of the riverine people

The construction of the hydroelectric power plant Belo Monte in the Brazilian Amazon displaced thousands of families and caused complex impacts for the affected population. This paper argues that previous studies about dispossession in development contexts have considered both material and immaterial consequences but have not brought these dimensions into a conceptual context. In order to contribute to a deeper analytical knowledge of the mechanisms and multi-level effects of dispossession processes, the paper introduces a perspective on dispossession that focuses on its embeddedness in the symbolic order, its epistemic and ontological dimensions and its psychosocial consequences. Using the example of the affected riverine people, this paper shows that the politics of non-recognition used by the construction consortium caused a process of precarization. This comprised the epistemological dimension, and in turn led to a process of deterritorialization, heavily affecting the riverine people on a psychosocial level.

From modernization to deterritorialization: dynamics and dilemmas of agricultural work in the Cerrado of Piauí, Brazil

O agronegócio tem se manifestado como um dos principais mecanismos de desterritorialização da identidade cultural do agricultor familiar do cerrado piauiense, haja vista que a recente ocupação empresarial do município de Uruçuí, conformada na modernização, nos princípios da agronomia científica e nos procedimentos de gestão administrativa, visando à produção em larga escala, sobretudo, soja, e a conquista de mercados, tem interferido na paisagem, no trabalho, no uso da terra, nos costumes, nos hábitos e nas práticas socioculturais, atingindo o ecossistema e gerando conflitos sociais, como a concentração fundiária, configurando uma grave crise socioambiental. Assim, faz-se necessário questionar o contexto de ocupação do cerrado uruçuiense pelo agronegócio e suas repercussões sobre a continuidade da agricultura familiar. Nesse sentido, salienta-se que este artigo pretende analisar a desterritorialização provocada pelo agronegócio granífero na agricultura familiar de Uruçuí. Este estudo descritivo/explicativo se embasou nos métodos dialético e etnogeográfico, os quais foram subsidiados por pesquisas bibliográfica, documental e levantamento, como também por formulários semiestruturados aplicados entre 254 agricultores familiares de Uruçuí. Concluiu-se que o processo de desterritorialização em Uruçuí, ocasionado pela difusão do agronegócio granífero, confirmou-se, mormente, na subordinação da mão de obra familiar ao trabalho temporário nas grandes propriedades agrícolas, pois a mesma era desvalorizada, apresentando baixo nível de especialização e reduzida remuneração salarial; na diminuição das relações de ajuda mútua entre as comunidades rurais; em mudanças nos modos de vida; e na eminente dependência dos agricultores familiares à aplicação idílica de insumos químicos nas lavouras.

Os tempos da ação docente na classe hospital

Partindo das referências temporais presentes em entrevistas realizadas com professoras de classe hospitalar em três instituições de Curitiba, bem como em observações in loci das práticas, discute-se o choque entre a duração real das aulas e a duração burocraticamente exigida pelas autoridades escolares, com suas consequências sobre o trabalho. Os principais conceitos mobilizados referem-se à territorialidade, como forma de estruturação hierárquica do espaço e, ao lugar, como construção de um modo de pertencimento marcado pela afetividade. Desse ponto de vista, assiste-se a um processo de desterritorialização num sentido amplo, abrangendo ainda as práticas escolares no hospital, ou seja, estas acontecem num ambiente que não está estruturado em função do ensino, portanto, a classe hospitalar aparece como um fenômeno de reconstrução e ressignificação das práticas socialmente determinadas em cada evento de ensino-aprendizagem, cujas marcas mais evidentes são a individualização e a afetividade. Como expressão desse processo, predominantemente aflora a criatividade das professoras, circunscrita pela territorialidade e temporalidade do hospital, suas regras e hierarquias[1].[1] A pesquisa que aconteceu entre 2014 a 2018 contou com financiamento da CAPES