ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a challenge to the division of critical geopolitics that has come to frame the sub-discipline. While the “little things” of the reproduction or challenging of geopolitical views cannot be overlooked, nor can the power-politics which structure the ways in which certain knowledges are given greater priority than others. Woodyer and Carter draw on Muller’s critique of critical geopolitic’s use of “the agency concept,” a focus on human agency where “actors draw upon discourse qua representations as a means of acquiring power of space and pursuing specific interests”. Botterill explores how the concept of “ontological security” is produced through the family, while Little draws on Pain’s relabelling of domestic violence as terrorism to rethink the ways different forms of violence are mediated in the domestic.
