Territorio y psicología social y comunitaria, trayectorias/implicaciones políticas y epistemológicas

Abstract

"Territory" is a concept originated in the disciplinary field of Geography, and that throughout the twentieth century has been reformulated according to the different frameworks of social thought. It could be said that, at present time, the concept has transcended its disciplinary field and is been used extensively in the field of social sciences in general, and in particularly, social psychology. Skipping the disciplinary framework, this paper proposes an analysis to understand the political and epistemological implications involved in using the concept of "territory" for the Social and Community Psychology. It will be argued that, far from what disciplinary approaches does, "territory" is a concept that is not and has not ever been exempted from certain psychosocial assumptions; Assumptions that from the present paper will be evident considering the intimate connections between the disciplines involved in it.