Financial globalism, territoriality, "progressivism" and conflicting projects

Abstract

This paper attempts to systematize the research advances put forward in various other papers [Formento y Merino, 2011; Merino 2011a; 2011b; 2011c; 2011d], in which "territory" gained progressively more importance. In this sense, we focus on four axes which, in our point of view, are key: first, transnational financial assets, their territoriality and the construction of what we will call, as a tendency, a Global State; second, the ways in which such territoriality is expressed locally - locally meaning part of the territory disputed by various projects, forces and interests; third, the development of an integrating axis that has to do with the aim of this paper: analyzing the contradictions going through the State and, especially, the Nation-state and how they show in the territory as opposing territorialities, launched by confronted political-strategic projects; and, finally, based on all of these considerations and just to graph some of the statements mentioned, a discussión about the way some authors understand "progressivism" associated with the new logic of transnational financial assets and their territorial configuration