This book explores the ways in which the study of the domestic and the international, far from being separate spheres, are in fact woven together in multiple ways. The chapters in this volume seek to question this traditional domestic/international binary and approach their entanglement through a range of different empirical settings and methodological approaches.
Inspired by a recent turn towards recognising the importance of the home, the intimate, and the everyday in the construction of geopolitical worlds, this book captures a broad range of agents, practices, objects, performativities and discourses that contribute to how geopolitics is rendered familiar, sanitised, embodied and enacted, and the ways in which ‘the home’ and the ‘traditional’ terrain of the geopolitical (the international sphere) are in fact folded into each other in multiple ways.
Domesticating Geopolitics will be of great use to students and researchers interested in geography and politics including popular geopolitics and human geography. This book was originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.
Introduction: Domesticating Geopolitics
Sean Carter and Tara Woodyer
1. Domesticating the Geopolitical: Rethinking Popular Geopolitics through Play
Tara Woodyer and Sean Carter
2. Ephemera(l) Geopolitics: The Material Cultures of British Military Recruitment
Matthew F. Rech
3. Figurations of Wounding: Soldiers’ Bodies, Authority, and the Militarisation of Everyday Life
Leila Dawney
4. Violence, the Body and the Spaces of Intimate War
Jo Little
5. Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland
Kate Botterill, Peter Hopkins and Gurchathen Sanghera
6. Domesticating Geopolitics: reflections
Jo Sharp
Biography
Sean Carter is Associate Professor in Political Geography at the University of Exeter. His work on the relationship between geopolitics and visual culture has been published in leading international journals.
Tara Woodyer is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Portsmouth. Her research on the intersections between cultural/political geographies and children's lives has been published in leading international journals.
