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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 w(contracted; show full)

==Use in anthropology==
When referring to culture, anthropologists use the term '''deterritorialized''' to refer to a weakening of ties between culture and place.  This means the removal of cultural subjects and objects from a certain location in space and time.  It implies that certain cultural aspects tend to transcend specific territorial boundaries in a world that consists of things fundamentally in motion.


In the context of Globalization, some argue deterritotialization is a cultural feature developed by the “[[mediatization]], migration, and [[commodification]] which characterize globalized [[modernity]]”. This implies that by people working towards closer involvement with the whole of the world, and works towards lessening the gap with one another, one may be widening the gap with what is physically close to them.
According to the works of [[Arjun Appadurai]], this cultural distancing from the locality, is intensified when people are able to expand and alter their imagination through the mediatization of alien cultural conditions, making this culture of remote origin one of a familiar material. This makes it difficult for a local entity to sustain and retain its own local cultural identity, which also affects the national identity of the region.[http://www.llull.cat/rec_transfer/webt1/transfer01_foc04.pdf][http://fido.rockymedia.net/anthro/Appaduraieconomy.pdf]⏎
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Although this term refers to culture changing, it does not mean that culture is looked at as an evolving process with no anchors.  Also, often when one culture is changing, it is because another is being reinserted into a [[cultural difference|different culture]].  For example, when a new area of the world gains access to the internet, the community also gains access to every other community that has access to the internet.  At that moment the deterritorializing process begins as the local culture is enveloped by the global c(contracted; show full)
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