Print Email Facebook Twitter European integration and the Territorial-Administrative Complex Title European integration and the Territorial-Administrative Complex Author Faludi, A.K.F. (TU Delft OLD Urban and Regional Development) Date 2016-07-18 Abstract Detractors of European integration and many of its protagonists invoke state territoriality where the social and the spatial come together in a “Territorial-Administrative Complex”. Like the military-industrial complex claiming once to procure security, protagonists claim to guarantee democratic legitimacy. At the same time, the interests of the territorial constituencies prevail over others. The underlying notion of space is absolute and of territory that of a container. Costs and benefits are calculated in terms pertaining to it. The underlying “meta-geography” is one of boxes-in-boxes, but rather than viewing space as a container, based on academic literature in the matter, planners now pursue soft planning for soft spaces. In the face of the apparently incontestable claim of the Territorial-Administrative Complex to a monopoly on the production of democratic legitimacy, the article points out, albeit rare examples of constitutional theorists challenge this monopoly. Voting in territorial constituencies, they claim, has never been properly argued for, making it an arbitrary institution. Subject European integrationterritorialitysoft spacesdemocratic legitimacy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d2946017-0d16-48f5-aee6-1c20f772706b DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12090 Embargo date 2018-07-18 ISSN 0435-3684 Source Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography, 98 (1), 71-80 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 A.K.F. Faludi Files PDF Faludi.004.Proof_1.pdf 306.36 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d2946017-0d16-48f5-aee6-1c20f772706b/datastream/OBJ/view