territorializing

Verb

territorialize (third-person singular simple present territorializes, present participle territorializing, simple past and past participle territorialized)

1. (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.
2. (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
   • The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name)