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SUMMARY:Rethinking the territory of (critical) geopolitics through Arctic 
 infrastructures - Vesa Väätänen\, Associate Research Fellow at the Arct
 ic Center\, University of Lapland
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CONTACT:Ben Weissenbach
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I explore the answer to the question what would m
 ore-than-human critical geopolitics of Arctic infrastructures look like if
  we\, by following Bruno Latour\, adopted an agent-based conceptualization
  of territory. By situating my approach in relation to literature that has
  built upon critical geopolitics\, as well as to the body of work that has
  sought to problematize the mainstream conceptualization of territory as a
  bounded political space I conceptualize territory as the assemblage of so
 cial and material relations that constitutes the conditions of possibility
  for the existence of any human or non-human\, individual or collective ag
 ent in its ever-becoming current form. From such an agent-based perspectiv
 e\, territories are not mutually exclusive\, but always necessarily folded
  into one another. Instead of separation and independence\, we find connec
 tion and interdependence. This\, I suggest\, offers a fruitful starting-po
 int to imagine infrastructure as coextensive with its territory that becom
 es continuously articulated through the processes of territorialisation\, 
 de-territorialisation and re-territorialisation. Consequently\, I locate g
 eopolitics in these processes through which territories are (dis)assembled
 \, which leads me to argue that geopolitics happens when territories meet.
  Through these conceptual moves it is possible to maintain the popular und
 erstanding that geopolitics is about territory\, but at the same time rewo
 rk what this territory is made of and how geopolitics figures into its (un
 )making.
LOCATION:Scott Polar Research Institute\, Seminar Room
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