ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to provide an antidote to these established 'realities' about Cyprus by articulating alternative social and spatial realities that co-exist with high level political debates. It focuses on questions of security and justice from the perspective of the Greek Cypriot children who have accompanied their parents on visits in the northern occupied areas since 2003. The chapter argues that their emotional geographies of the occupied areas are important ways of exploring the conflict in Cyprus, given that children's inherited collective memories and their selective navigation of the hitherto unknown part of the island constitute a key element in the formation of future political subjectivities. It utilizes a feminist geopolitics perspective, not because it deals directly with gender, but through its effort to ground, embody and locate geopolitics. The chapter argues that children's engagement with 'the other side' is an emotional engagement filled with sensual and highly charged emotional experiences.
