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This special issue presents a challenge to the division of critical geopolitics that has come to frame the sub-discipline. Instead of thinking about popular geopolitics as the way in which geopolitical practice escapes the formal realms of statecraft, academia and think-tanks, Woodyer and Carter, and the other contributing authors here, suggest we instead reframe our inquiry around the domestication of geopolitics. Woodyer and Carter suggest that this responds to recent moves within critical geopolitics to go beyond the discursive to reformulate geopolitics as “an encounter between texts, objects, bodies and practices”. It challenges the intentionality of representations sometimes assumed by popular geopolitics where the “agency of cultural producers has been prioritised over that of audiences, that textual and discursive methods have been prioritised over more embodied and affective approaches” – leaving more openness for play and mis-/re- interpretation – and it challenges the privileging of certain sites (most notably, different forms of mass media) that have tended to dominate this approach since its inception.
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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.
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