| ID | 175323 |
| Title Proper | Introduction |
| Other Title Information | Domesticating Geopolitics |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Carter, Sean ; Woodyer, Tara |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The papers that make up this special section on ‘domesticating geopolitics’ initially arose from a double session around this theme from the RGS-IBG Annual Conference held at the University of Exeter, UK, in September 2015. Those sessions, in turn, arose as a means of exploring a key theme that was emerging within our Ludic Geopolitics research project; how to think through the largely domestic geographies of children’s play in relation to wider geopolitical events. As we outline in more detail in our paper in this issue, our research was concerned with a specific toy range (the Her Majesty Armed Forces action figure range) that emerged in a specific place (the UK), and at a specific time (whilst UK military action was ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan). However, the question of how to theorise and conceptualise the entangled relationship between the domestic and the international is of course, a much wider problematic. The impetus behind the conference sessions was to begin a dialogue with others who, whilst working in different empirical settings, were nevertheless grappling with some of these same issues. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 25, No.5; Nov-Dec 2020: p.1045-1049 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 25 No 5 |
| Key Words | Domesticating Geopolitics |