A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting

Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home

Bibliographic Data

ID3948968
AuthorsOlivia Mason (0000-0003-3873-6825, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, corresponding author), Sarah M Hughes (0000-0003-1746-6846, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Year2025
Volume30
Issue1
Pages350-377
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2024.2316660
OpenAlexW4392135931
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited77

This paper aims to enhance geopolitical understandings of hosting by exploring the practice of bringing guests – known or unknown – into a home. It starts with a recognition that whilst a growing body of geographical literature has explored the geopolitics of home, this has yet to be substantially brought into conversation with the practice of hosting. Grounded within our research on refugee hosting in the UK, and being hosted in Palestinian homestays we contend that an attention to a cultural geopolitics of hosting enriches geographical accounts of hosting. Our case studies muddy the cultural and political borders of both home and hosting and question the multiscalar and relational understandings of hospitality. A cultural geopolitics of hosting then, demonstrates how hosting intersects with dynamics of geopolitics and culture through and in the multiple spaces of home. This paper, shows how a braiding of literatures on home and hosting is productive for understandings of the geopolitics of home, and hospitality at the different scales of the political

Geopolitics · Hospitality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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