Territoriality in critical times: new trends in political sociology

Abstract

Classic political sociology has been strongly committed to understand political dynamics in linking with territorial dimensions. Scholars as Stein Rokkan have framed the emergence and consolidation of European party system in the first part of the XX Century as consequences of spatial transformations related to the industrial revolution and processes of urbanisation. In the last decades, the impact of new structural challenges– e.g. globalisation and Europeanisation – have contributed to a renewed interest for spatial- and territorial-oriented perspectives. Aspects as urban-rural cleavages, state-nation borders, subnational powers and identities have taken new significance as objects of analysis in political science and political sociology. This panel would like to offer the opportunity to present and discuss recent contributions in this subfield, with a particular emphasis on the relation between territoriality and the rise of right-wing populism.

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