Materials, forensics and feminist geopolitics

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ID8092484
AuthorsJoanne Sharp (0000-0001-5805-4296, University of St Andrews, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume45
Issue5
Pages990-1002
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132520905653
OpenAlexW3010294389
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited39

This article seeks to advance the case for feminist geopolitics that recognises the challenges both to the Enlightenment individual and the discursive turn in geography posed by ‘new materialisms’. I will argue that for a distinctively feminist geopolitics a consideration of the way that representational categories align the material around bodies is vital. After a brief discussion of feminist geopolitical approaches, the article moves on to consider accounts of new materialism and assemblage approaches as they are applied to geopolitics, before moving on to consider what a forensic approach might offer to a materialist feminist geopolitics

Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Enlightenment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Geography · Geopolitics · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Philosophy · Sex work and related issues

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