Subject: clave typology & inventory in process
Date: May 02, 2001 @ 05:02
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>Country count
>Michael, if it helps, I've attached a list of the 192 "core countries" that
>seem to have the most wide-spread recognition. Any tripoint survey would also
>have to take into account at least the existence of French Guiana, an
>Overseas Department of France with a debated/approximate borders with
>Suriname and Brazil. This, I think, is the only land-surface boundary between
>country and dependency. If you are going to use nautical boundaries (as it
>seems to me you are), then there may be other dependency-related borders out
>there.
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>Exclaves
>I thought I had detected a subtle variant use of the word "exclave" by this
>group, which I liked. But maybe I'm wrong, in which case my recent
>enclave/exclave dichotomies are meaningless. I certainly agree with a
>previous mail from Brendan that the perfectly complimentary dictionary
>definitions of ex/enclaves is confusing and pointless - basically two names
>for the same thing: a bit of one country enclosed by another. But although I
>can't find it in a handy dictionary today, is there not another, more general
>usage, of "exclave", to mean any detached part of a parent country (Brendan's
>"fragment")? In terms of etymology, such a usage is at least defensible:
>enclave = something enclosed within a country; exclave = something detached
>from a country. With such usage the exclave/enclave contrast becomes useful,
>and allows us to sort the territory into four basic categories from which we
>can build.
>
>Indian/Bangla enclaves
>I had assumed that the oft-quoted 111 and 51 enclaves represented the *total*
>count - ie including enclaves-within-enclaves. But, Brendan, your recent
>posting seems to suggest that the 2nd and 3rd order enclaves need to be
>*added* to this total. That is:
>111 Indian enclaves + 3 Indian 2nd order enclaves + 1 Indian 3rd order enclave
>51 Bangladeshi enclaves + 21 Bangladeshi 2nd order enclaves.
>Is that correct?
>(I'm accepting here that the exact figures are unknown, as you've already
>said.)
>
>Why enclaves happen
>Finally, addressing the notion of enclaves as signs of the spread and
>recession of nations, I've always had a different picture in my head, which I
>might as well throw into the pot. Borders are simple lines traced in two
>dimensions (on the surface of a map, a globe or the wrinkled real world), but
>people distribute themselves *fractally* - little outlying patches of folk,
>with their own little outliers, with *their* own outliers, right down to the
>three Lithuanian guys on the lupin farm in Belarus. So *any* attempt to draw
>a 2-D line of demarcation across a populated landscape is flawed to some
>extent, because fractals are (2+a fraction)-dimensional. Possible solutions
>are:
>a) Draw the border through uninhabited territory (desert or frontier
>countries)
>b) Use huge natural divides (rivers, mountains) to minimise the fractal
>overspill
>c) Move the people (the Partition solution)
>d) Ignore their wishes (the chopping up of Africa, in many places)
>e) Enclaves
>
>Grant
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