Archipelagoes, Enclaves, and Other Cartographic Monsters Available to Purchase

The chapter looks at territorial entities that depart from established political norms such as colonial dominions, enclaves, and other atomized and fractured national spaces. This final chapter suggests that the emergence of the logomap, free from all geographical shackles and dislocated from its neighbors, was made possible through the active suppression of similarities, connections, and overlaps. The visually unambiguous logomap, however, is paralleled by the uncanny shadowy figure of the monstrous and the concorporate, which threatens to disrupt the idealized portrayal of the nation-state as autonomous and independent—a terror we can trace in fragmented territorial forms. Queering political geography, this chapter incorporates analyses by feminist geographers and philosophers to propose alternative and more inclusive bodily metaphors.