States homogenize populations mainly through territorial boundaries that regulate cultural formation.

Evidence

Modern states homogenize in large part through territorialization. Boundaries as the codification and institutionalization of power (what Balibar calls “power structures”) order not just the spaces they bound but the entire productive and cultural formations they incorporate. These include forces and relations of production, modes of signification and representation, distribution and consumption, patterns of individual and collective desire, linguistic base and facility, cultural expression, and so on. Together they fashion and regulate the state’s population. State populations are thus homogenized through territorialized constriction and conscription. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘territorialization’ as the mechanism by which boundaries encode power and homogenize state populations.