Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction: parliamentary enclosure and spatial rationalities in the transition from feudalism to capitalism

► Examines parliamentary enclosure as a precedent in the emergence of sociospatial governmentality. ► Connects parliamentary enclosure with wider national and geo-economic dynamics. ► Conceptualises parliamentary enclosure as a strategic mechanism of sociospatial reterritorialisation. ► Presents a new framework for, and a critique of conventional narratives of, planning history.