User:Diegocerda~enwiki/Territory (community and local power)

Territory (community and local power) The importance of administrative decentralization policies of the sovereign geographic area of the state, along with the development of technological means to annotate maps in the context of Web 2.0, has enabled the emergence of means of defining territories parallely to the official ones, based on communal - social production and local experience. This territory is produced according to the meaning that people give the place they inhabit. The territory thus defined is consolidated to the extent that this way of understanding becomes common place and even massive. Both the social habitat, daily vivenciación , place attachment , and historical traces of places make a common sense called territory thus the territory is the result of adding a sense (meaning) to a place, and that this sense of place is validated by a critical mass of people. The community definition of a territory can often be opposed to the definition that the state has a geographical space, especially when large projects can threaten territorially constituted modes. When the geographical space is appropriate for a sense of community, and other senses such as environmentalism , landscaping can become significant opponents for large projects undertaken by the state , corporations or both in collusion. Hence arises that the territory must be understood as subject to local definitions. This problem has been treated as a disciplinary challenge for sociology, human geography and ethnography devoted to know the meanings of place to achieve the status of territories, regardless of formal definitions, in this dynamic generate what can be termed micro - local geopolitical. To understand dynamic has emerged 're the discipline of social science geosemantics as responsible for hearing the territories as the result of community social production of geographic spaces, at the intersection of place and meaning.