ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the everyday practices of children and how these are bound up in, and interrelated with, critical geopolitics. It shows the ways in which geopolitics can permeate key moments in young people's life course, such as leaving home to go to university or decisions about intimate relationships and marriage. The book focuses on children, young people and critical geopolitics has, perhaps understandably, been on geopolitical present; on how young people, typically, directly experience and perceive the contemporary world of international relations. It suggests that 'many studies of children and young people use the term play to refer to children's activities, while young people are viewed as engaging in leisure and youth subcultures rather than play.' The book also suggests that young people's engagements in leisure and youth subcultures could provide an additional fruitful avenue of inquiry into their encounters with geopolitics.
