ABSTRACT
Critical geopolitics and critical IR has long been concerned with the geographical and political implications of such modes of binary thinking (not just foreign/domestic, but also ‘inside/outside’, ‘here/there’), and the subsequent scripting of particular spaces as either anarchic or safe, foreign or domestic. Amongst the most prominent challenges made towards critical geopolitics in recent years, those posed by feminist geographers and IR scholars on questions of the domestic and intimate are most prescient here. Bodies, personal decisions, religious beliefs, families, feelings, mundane objects and everyday speech acts thus become, here, sites for the reproduction and contestation of geopolitical imaginaries and possibilities. They ‘are territory but also make territory’ as intimacy becomes a ‘site of geopolitical practices’. Whilst not tied to any particular conceptual tradition, authors in this special section negotiate everyday and intimate geopolitics as, for example, discursive, performative, material and more-than-human.
