ABSTRACT
In the spirit of demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics, this chapter aims to outline how the interdiscipline of gender studies makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of popular geopolitics. It focuses on three pillars of gender studies: gender, sexuality, and the body, to demonstrate how these are integral to understand popular geopolitics, and are requisite for any interrogation of the politics of popular culture. The chapter illustrates that both gender studies and popular geopolitics share a common commitment to the motto 'the personal is political'. It also demonstrates how concepts from gender studies assist in elucidating popular geopolitics, allowing scholars to go beyond reading male-centred, triumphalist national metaphors in popular culture as a way of telling parables of masculinist politics. The chapter asserts that popular geopolitics substantively benefits from engaging with gender studies and its critique of the gendered spaces of knowledge.
