territorialize

• territorialise

territorial +‎ -ize

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.
   • 1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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.