Introduction

Engaging Geopolitics through the Lens of the Intimate

Bibliographic Data

ID3948189
AuthorsElena Barabantseva (0000-0001-5169-8128, Barts Health NHS Trust, corresponding author), Aoileann Ní Mhurchú (0000-0002-2886-6944), Spike Peterson (0000-0002-4401-8558), V Spike Peterson
Year2021
Volume26
Issue2
Pages343-356
Publication date2021-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2019.1636558
OpenAlexW2953593789
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited59

In this introduction to the special section on “Engaging Geopolitics through the Lens of the Intimate”, we first locate the papers collected here in the context of developing an “Intimate Geopolitics” project at the University of Manchester. We then review the importance of ‘intimacy’ and the concept of ‘the intimate’ across an array of disciplinary studies, drawing especially on the rich body of work by critical geopolitics scholars who have long challenged categorical binaries and territorial boundaries. Our focus here is exploring what insights we can bring to understanding the nexus of intimacy and global politics by deploying the lens of the intimate--understood as a variety of processes of attachment and relationality--in six globally dispersed case studies. Collectively, the papers presented here not only engage a wide range of issues and locations, but also contribute to research engaging geographically specific contexts and practices. We note that the papers ‘cluster’ around issues of migration, borders, ‘home’, asylum and visa regimes, prompting us to suggest that the papers productively inform three foci of inquiry. Specifically, the papers 1) enrich our understanding of bordercrossing beyond simple association of this with the movement of people, things and ideas; 2) deepen our understanding of how geopolitics is constituted by forms of attachments and relationality that are integral to forms of governance; and 3) help us explore how attachments are not simply additive but productive of geopolitical concerns

Corporate governance · Discipline · Epistemology · Geography · Geopolitics · Management · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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