Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the whole plane of consistency.
--Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Deleuze and Guattari advocate a way of avoiding colonization by way of perpetual motion, a mode of hybridity or flight that resists concrete identity or fixed location. They claim to capture the upside of colonial movement, migration, without the liability of settling into someone else’s territory. What forms of colonization come into play in public administration theory and practice? What are the consequences of these kinds of colonization? This Forum seeks reflections on various notions of colonization, their effects, and their relationship to public administration theory and practice. Questions that authors might address include:
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