State territoriality and beyond: an introduction

Discusses relationships between state territoriality, political fragmentation, cultural assimilation, and social movement; relationship among states, territoriality and indigenous people of the Sami homeland, politics of territorial identification of Anglo-Montrealers, (the Quebec problem), and European integration, territorial features, and state borders in EU; 4 articles. Sami people are an example of an indigenous people and minority faced with changes of state territoriality and assimilation, Northern Europe