Place and Metaterritory as space of relationships

ABSTRACT

The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic is challenging paradigms that have so far informed the theoretical and the defining apparatuses of the concept of territory. Therefore, the disciplinary statutes on which they relied are showing their inadequacy, so much so that reinterpretations and recodifications are needed. In order to provide a semantically sharper definition to what is being experienced in living today, this article is attempting to circumscribe this concept in its "identity” dimension, through which communities are coping with the biophysical and built environment in relation to local and global challenges. In the strand of concept papers and hypothesis-building studies, this contribution does not purport to provide answers. It is aiming to pinpoint a new research-field for regional studies, circumscribing either a research agenda, or the level of an ion to which a spatial sociology (Mela, 2006;Mela, 2020) may hopefully confer its answers. In this perspective, this article attempts to reframe the concept of territory, as an experience of space-time processuality and it will introduce that of metaterritory, as a space for collaborative relationships. Copyright © FrancoAngeli.