DISSECTING THE TERRITORY. REVIEW OF EIGHT CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS

Abstract

This text raises the need to clarify the concept of territory and its spatial application in different fields of social sciences. The objective is to discuss the concept of territory through the literature review of eight contemporary authors with the purpose of presenting some of their general theoretical and methodological tendencies. and show an overview of the analytical gaps that were identified in the reviewed authors. These gaps are identified as contradictions, lack of argument, little depth and obviousness in the discussions of the selected texts. The position taken in this work is totally interdisciplinary, since the territory is thought of as a social phenomenon insubordinate to other phenomena or disciplines and, at the same time, related to other social phenomena.