Outside Territory

What would it mean to be outside territory? I’m going to discuss this question in three registers: conceptually; historically; politically. The first two will be brief; the third literary.being outside territory conceptually Territory, for me, is actually quite a specific concept. If territo-ry extends from a room, a building, a group of them, to a campus, an urban area, a city, a region, a nation-state, and so on, it seems to me that the term becomes so general that it becomes not especially helpful. If we extend a human notion of “territory” to understand animals, as etholo-gists did in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this may yield some fruitful insights. But it does not seem, to me, to be especially helpful then to take that notion of animal behavior, a notion of territoriality, of hunting and mating areas, to understand humans. Thus, for me, territoriality is a consequent no-tion to that of territory; not the means to understand it. Territoriality is one of a number of strategies that produce territory, but conceptually it succeeds it. Territoriality is that which produces territory. The latter term still needs conceptual unpacking. It does not seem especially helpful to understand ter-ritory simply as the outcome of territoriality.