4 – Feminist geopolitics and everyday life

Question 1

Name two geographers that originated feminist geopolitics.

Answer 1

(Rose, 1993) - argued that geography relies on masculinist rationality

(Haraway, 1988) - argued for the accomodation of situated knowledges from feminist perspectives

Question 2

How has feminist scholarship challenged critical geopolitics?

Answer 2

It has critiqued the wider msaaculinist traits of the geographical discipline and has illuminated the centrality of activists, NGOs and civil society groups as agents within the circulation of geopolitical knowledge

Question 3

Describe the idea of intimate geopolitics and give an example.

Answer 3

Intimate geopolitics refers to work that has extended feminist geopolitics’ focus on the body to the role of reproductive health in shaping territorial claims and the role of bodies in everyday life

e.g. (Smith, 2012) - looked at how reproductive health campaigns seek to limit certain forms of reproduction in various Indian states