ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critical reflection on the volume, with a focus on the geopolitical aspect of its aims. Two notions of ‘geopolitical context’ are identified in the chapters. One approach views it as a single political entity of some description (e.g. Australia, Indonesia). The other approach views it as a relational process, a type of politics that crosses borders and reflects global power relations (e.g. Australian-ness and Indonesian-ness merging and/or colliding). A critical set of questions is posed. What is a geopolitical lens, and can geopolitical practices be distinguished from ethnic or cultural practices? Do we need geopolitics? Or do we really just mean sociocultural and national contexts? Might we fruitfully theorise a ‘geopolitical order’ alongside the gender and culture orders explored in the chapters? Finally, it is asserted that a feminist approach to geopolitics is needed, but one that is radical enough to join hands with subaltern geopolitics and decolonising interventions. We must look away from our ‘lens’ into the geopolitical mirror, taking seriously the notion that academic fields are geopolitical apparatuses themselves. We must create permanent ruptures in academic geopolitical injustice while rupturing the gender order in the workplace. It is a truly feminist geopolitical intervention.
