(Dis‐)ordering the state: territory in Icelandic statecraft

摘要: Foucault and Lefebvre's writings have rekindled interest among geographers in territory–state relations, with recent work conceptualising territory as a state strategy to control space, on the socio-natural relation. However, what is lacking how these debates intersect post-human understandings of nature's materialities, resulting ‘material territory’ mediates periodisation. Drawing case study Iceland, we address this issue show pre-modern territorialisation shaped territorialities, periodisation arises from political order imbricating materialities territory. The originality threefold. First material category resists or reinterprets ordering through longitudinal examination single case. Second reconceptualise an evolutionary material-political, much socio-economic, process. Third establish empirically unacknowledged tensions between state's use ‘domestic’ ‘foreign’ affairs. We analyse implications conception for wider contemporary statecraft. revealed site multiple territorialities territorial multiplicities over time.