ABSTRACT
A feminist geopolitics could neither be a tradi-tional mapping of boundaries or an embracing of the fluidity of international politics exemplified by certain post-modern geopoliticians. The language of crit-ical geopolitics is presented as being as universal as that which it seeks to create, and yet it is a Western form of reasoning, dominated again by white, male academics. A broadening of the methodology of critical geopolitics from textual analysis to what might be considered to be an ethnography of international relations offers exciting possibilities for understandings of the complex local embodied geographies that reconstruct the nation and the geography of inter-national relations. A number of commentators have noted that, just as the formal actors of international politics have been disembodied, offering a 'spectator' theory of knowledge, so too are their critical geopolitical commentators undifferentiated by the marks of gender, race, class, sexuality or physical ability.
