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'''Deterritorialization''' is a [[concept]] created by [[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]] in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]'' (1972), which, in accordance to Deleuze's desire and [[philosophy]], quickly became used by others, for example in [[anthropology]], and transformed in this reappropriation. Deleuze and Guattari encouraged this use of their concepts in other senses than that they were "originally created for", since they did not believe in this conception of an "original sense", which could be related to [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]]. Deleuze said, for example, that the people who had best understood the ''Anti-Oedipus'' were persons that were neither (university) philosophers nor psychoanalysts. He particularly liked a letter sent to him by an [[origami]]-maker, who had seen new inspiration in the book ''Le Pli'' (''The Fold'').

==Common senseDefinition==
Deterritorialization may mean to take the control and order away from a land or place (territory) that is already established. It is to undo what has been done. For example, when the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Hernán Cortés|conquered]] the [[Aztecs]], the [[Spain|Spanish]] eliminated many [[symbols]] of [[Aztec]] [[beliefs]] and [[rituals]]. [[Reterritorialization]] usually follows, as in the example when the Spanish replaced the traditional structures with their own beliefs and rituals.  Another example of deterritorialization and subsequent [[reterritorialization]] can be seen in [[Hitler]]’s propaganda campaign that lead to [[World War II]].  He had books banned and burned which contradicted his values and then replaced them with his own.

==Deleuze & Guattari's use of the concept=Abstraction===
[[Deleuze]] and [[Guattari]] use deterritorialization to designate the freeing of labor-power from specific means of production.  For example, English peasants were banished by the [[Enclosure Acts]] (1709–1869) from common land when it was enclosed for private landlords.

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