A Feminist Geopolitics?

Dowler, Lorraine; Sharp, Joanne

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“…A notable exception comes from feminism, which has openly challenged the notion of an undifferentiated national subject, bringing gender into the picture (Anthias & Yuval‐Davis, ; McClintock, ; Yuval Davis, ). Feminist authors have contested the gendered identities produced by nationalism qua a male‐heterosexual project, which denies agency to women and portrays them, among others, as passive biological reproducers or as embodied national boundaries which can be policed (e.g., abortion law) or violated (e.g., war rape) (Blom et al, ; Dowler & Sharp, ; Mayer, , ; Sharp, ). Yet, the main preoccupation of feminist authors has been to broaden the notion of the (geo)political, breaking the public–private divide and making the body a central scale of power dynamics rather than interrogating the internal stability of the nation as a semantic referent.…”

Section: Banal and Everyday Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

Antonsich

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Over the last two decades, banal and everyday nationalism have been the main theoretical and methodological approaches for studying how nations are reproduced “from below”. The present article advances this literature by paying close attention to racially differentiated subjects and, more precisely, subjects who are perceived to look different from, but sound like, the national majority group. Building on the feminist attention to the corporeal, I argue that face‐to‐face encounters with the simultaneous embodiment of (somatic) strangeness and (linguistic) sameness generate a sense of surprise which interrupts the reproduction of the nation. This, in turn, allows for the “troubling” of the very identity category (nation) which both banal and everyday nationalism avoid interrogating directly. I support and illustrate this argument by focusing on the case of the children of migrants born and raised in Italy and their personal experiences in mundane settings. The article discusses the implications of this short circuit in the banal and everyday processes of national reproduction in terms of potential openings of the nation to more inclusive forms.

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Section: Banal and Everyday Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

Antonsich

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…The recent work on intimate geopolitics (Pain, ; Pain & Staeheli, ) provides a further contribution to thinking more critically on the relationality of care ethics. This line of research draws on interventions made within feminist geopolitics as “a lens through which the everyday experiences of the disenfranchised can be made more visible” (Dowler & Sharp, , p. 169) by prioritising “interconnections and interdependencies across scales, categories and border and also between things” (Mitchell & Kallio, , p. 2; emphasis in original; see also Hyndman, 2001; Mountz & Hyndman, ; Staeheli, Kofman, & Peake, ). “Intimate geopolitics” brings unabashed attention to the (gendered) body as a site of connection and disconnection, importantly through the ways it is deployed and enacted on through political violence.…”

Section: Relational Geographymentioning

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Relational spaces and relational care: Campus sexual violence, intimate geopolitics and topological polis

Bartos

2018

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Critical care ethics argues that care's political potential lies in its relationality. This paper draws on geographic scholarship on relationality to develop a spatial relational care approach to care ethics. This approach seeks to bring visibility to the diversity of caring and non-caring relationalities that occur between multiple people, places, events, times and structural underpinnings. In other words, caring agencies occurring in particular places have political reach well beyond the initial sites in which the act of "care" occurred. Geographic relational scholarship on care brings attention to the fallacy that people and places are autonomous. This paper suggests that the frameworks of topological polis and intimate geopolitics can extend our relational understandings of care and offer insights into aspects of social life that care research has yet to explore. Empirically, this paper draws on a high-profile campus sexual assault case to argue that the spaces of care need to be understood beyond the location where the initial care act took place, that responding to care creates relational poleis, and that the site of the body is relationally bound with care and violence. K E Y W O R D S care, caring agency, college campuses, gendered violence, non-care, relationality 1 | INTRODUCTION Sexual assault is not a new phenomenon, but over the past few years, public awareness of sexual violence has been increasing.Recently, a dizzying number of highly influential men have been caught up in sexual harassment and assault scandals across a range of sectors and industries, most notoriously: Hollywood mogul, Harvey Weinstein; Fox News anchor, Bill O'Reilly; and then-presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump. Some of these men resigned or were terminated from their jobs amidst the scandals, while one became President of the USA. In 2017, over a million people globally demonstrated their resistance to misogyny, among other social justice concerns, in solidarity with the Women's March (on Washington, DC). Less than a year later, Time magazine awarded "Person of the Year" to #MeToo, the social media movement that erupted in the wake of accusations of sexual assault by Weinstein. 1 While sexual violence is not new, the countless incidents of women (and, in some instances, men) who have begun to speak out about their experiences surviving sexual violence is unprecedented.A year before #MeToo, a 2016 "Glamour Woman of the Year" was awarded to "Jane Doe," 2 a woman who remains anonymous but whose voice went viral when her court statement made during the People v. Turner trial 3 became public. Turner, a white freshman varsity swimmer at Stanford University, was charged with sexually assaulting Jane behind a campus dumpster while she was unconscious. He faced up to 14 years in prison. The judge in the case, Persky, sentenced Turner to six months and released him after three months for "good behaviour." As of December 2017, Turner is appealing his conviction (Salam, 2017).---

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“…The nature of research from scholars engaging critical geopolitics and political geography more broadly has changed markedly in recent years on the back of feminist‐inspired calls to ‘ground’ geopolitics (see Dowler and Sharp ; Hyndman ). These shifts have led to greater interest in the everyday, lived experiences and emotions of diverse citizenries in geographies previously overlooked by state‐centric geopolitical traditions (e.g.…”

Section: Remembering Young People and Everyday Geopoliticsmentioning

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Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands

Benwell

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Young people's geopolitical subjectivities are heavily informed by past events in ways that have not been sufficiently acknowledged in the existing literature on youth geopolitics. This paper demonstrates how work on memory can be brought into dialogue with critical geopolitics to identify the assemblage of socio-spatial practices that shape how young people learn about geopolitics. It interrogates what memories and their attendant landscape manifestations and rituals 'do' to young people growing up in the Falkland Islands, a society that continues to live with the legacies of a sovereignty dispute that triggered the Falklands War just over 30 years ago. Young Islanders' embodied and relational encounters with memory through the surrounding environment and adults are shown to play an important role in shaping their perceptions of contemporary geopolitical relations with Argentina. These can both reproduce and/or rework collective memory narratives, emphasising the importance of looking beyond mnemonic discourses manifest in institutional and official spaces. The paper makes a conceptual contribution to debates about young people's agency in relation to geopolitics. While children and young people are considered active agents capable of forming their own views, they are also presented with potent memories of past geopolitical eras that propagate certain understandings of international relations. Engaging scholarship on memory can help address the tensions inherent to recognising children and young people as social and (geo)political actors, within the context of structures, institutions and relationships that have a strong bearing on how their agency is expressed. In a methodological sense the paper illustrates how research might productively incorporate the adults who are influential in the formation of young people's geopolitical subjectivities.

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A Feminist Geopolitics?

Cited by 86 publications

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The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

Relational spaces and relational care: Campus sexual violence, intimate geopolitics and topological polis

Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands

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