National space can come to be diffe

National space can come to be differently valorized for the state and for its citizen-subjects. The state is typically concerned with taxation, order, general stability and fixity, whereas from the point of view of subjects, territory typically involves rights to movement, rights to shelter and rights to subsist. Thus “soil” needs to be distinguished from territory (“sons of the soil). While soil is a matter of a spatialized and originary discourse of belonging, territory is concerned with integrity, surveyability, policing, and subsistence.