Territorialization from below? Belongings and state building, Leipzig 1485-1806

民族国家被认为是现代性秩序的经典范式：国家和民族在概念上被想象为属于一起;（隐含的）假设是公民身份和领土原则是一致的。然而，目前的研究和社会政治辩论都表明，这种国家领土归属概念达到了极限：跨国和超国家实体以及非领土组织的财产取代或改变了归属的领土概念。因此，民族国家范式不再具有广泛的有效性。这就引出了一个问题，即民族国家之后会发生什么。与此同时，人们对民族国家出现之前的时代，即民族国家在前现代时期的形成及其替代品和变体，越来越感兴趣。这正是拟议项目的用武之地。受当前解体过程的启发和启发，它侧重于范式的形成，或者更准确地说，侧重于现代早期归属和领土化之间的联系。以1485年至1806年期间的莱比锡市为例，其目标是绘制多个相关财产的相互联系和共存，其各种空间范围及其历史性。第一步，我们要问的是，现代早期莱比锡的各种主要利益相关者（主权、城市、教会和学术界）创造和定义了哪些空间。第二步涉及要求在这个规范性的确定和这些规范在城镇居民日常生活中的锚定之间的传输带。根据地图、城市景观和其他象征性的表达，以及城市理事会和仪式记录，我们将研究如何以及哪些不同的空间被可视化，以及哪些实践和仪式被用来制作一个心理地图，即在城市居民的头脑中锚定当局的空间安排。第三步，重点转向在这些城市空间中移动和互动的人类。主人公在空间上所处的审讯记录和恳求提供了充足的信息，说明他们如何解释自己的空间，以及当局的规范在这个过程中在多大程度上是相关的。随着这些空间属性的配置在现代早期的过程中发生变化，该项目反复讨论这个问题，以便从历史的角度阐明领土化，国家建设和归属感之间高度相关的联系。与此同时，该项目将自下而上的领土化的一面引入到国家建设的经典叙事中，这一点迄今为止几乎没有被考虑过。

The nation state is deemed to be modernitys classic paradigm of order: state and nation are conceptually imagined as belonging together; the (implicit) assumption is that citizenship and the principle of territoriality came to be congruent. However, current research and sociopolitical debates both demonstrate that this national territorial conception of belonging reaches its limit: transnational and supranational entities as well as nonterritorially organized belongings replace territorial concepts of belonging or transform them. Therefore, the nation state paradigm can no longer claim extensive validity. This begs the question what might come after the nation state. At the same time, there is a growing interest in the era before the nation state that is, in its formation during the premodern age and its alternatives and variants. This is where the proposed project fits in. Inspired and informed by current processes of dissolution, it focuses on the paradigms formation, or to be more precise, on the connection between belonging and territorialization in the early modern era. Based on the example of the city of Leipzig over the period from 1485 to 1806, the goal is to map the interconnectedness and coexistence of multi tied belongings, their various spatial rang and their historicity. In a first step it will be asked which spaces were created and defined by the various key stakeholders (sovereign, urban, ecclesiastical, and academic) in early modern Leipzig. The second step involves asking for the transmission belts between this normative determination and the anchoring of these specifications in the townspeoples everyday life. On the basis of maps, cityscapes, and other symbolic representations, as well as city council and ceremonial records, it will be examined how and which differing spaces were visualized as well as which practices and rituals were used for the production of a mental map, that is for anchoring the authorities spatial arrangements in the minds of the urban dwellers. In a third step, the focus shifts towards the humans that move and interact within these urban spaces. Interrogation records and supplications in which the protagonists locate themselves spatially provide ample information of how they construed their own spaces and to what extent the authorities specifications were relevant in this process. As these configurations of spatial belongings change over the course of the early modern era, the project addresses this issue repeatedly in order to shed light on the highly relevant connection between territorialization, state building and belonging from a historical perspective. At the same time, the project introduces the facet of territorialization from below, which has hardly been considered until now, to the classic narrative of state building.