Of Possibilities, Probabilities and Political Geography

Staeheli, Lynn A.

doi:10.1080/13562570120104391

Cited by 32 publications

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“…Second, feminist scholars have explored Billig's banal nationalism highlighting how the nation emerges through embodied gender performances in everyday life (Mayer, 2000;Staeheli, 2001;Warren, 2009;Yuval-Davis, 1997). With the notion of an "embodied nationalism" (Mayer, 2004), they have challenged the disembodied and abstract nature of much nationalism research in political geography (Blunt, 1999;Fluri, 2008;Hyndman, 2004;Radcliffe, 1999).…”

Section: Nationalism Revisited: Banal Embodied Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective nationalism: Banalities of belonging in Azerbaijan

Militz

Schurr

2016

Political Geography

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While Michael Billig's 'banal nationalism' points to the significance of the trivial reproduction of national representations in everyday routines, feminist political geographers have highlighted how the nation is brought into being through embodied and emotional practices. Building upon and extending these notions of the nation as represented and embodied, the paper argues that the nation also takes shape through bodily encounters and joyful as well as painful affections. In what we call 'affective nationalism', the nation emerges in moments of encounter between different bodies and objects through embodying, sharing, enjoying or disliking what feels national. We combine a Deleuzian reading of affect that discloses the mechanisms of material becomings with feminist scholarship sensitive to how bodies affect and are affected differently by materially produced nationalisms. Based on ethnographic field research in Azerbaijan, which we present in three vignettes, we untangle the affective becoming of national bodies, objects and places during a publicly staged ceremony of the collective remembrance of martyr and the celebration of a national holiday within the realm of a family. The paper makes two contributions to researching affective nationalism. First, it enquires into how people identify with Azerbaijan through their capacities to affect and to be affected by what feels national and, second, it explores how affective nationalism can be captured through vignettes of affective writing.

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Section: Nationalism Revisited: Banal Embodied Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective nationalism: Banalities of belonging in Azerbaijan

Militz

Schurr

2016

Political Geography

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“…As Secor (, p. 193) writes, “feminist approaches show how the (imminently political) categories of public and private, global and local, formal and informal, ultimately blur, overlap and collapse into one another in the making of political life”. There is no resolution in these tensions; the project, rather, is to illuminate and use them to build a better and more inclusive world: as much a focus on process, as outcome (Staeheli, ). It is this engagement with process that distinguishes feminist‐oriented research.…”

Section: Methodological Considerations: Research Process and Listeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Who speaks for the Middle East and how much of the "masculinist ways of knowing and writing" (Dixon & Jones, 2015) still shape the discipline and beyond? (Sharp, 2000, Staeheli 2001). Looking at popular geopolitical source material, Wright (2008), for example, troubles the gendered politics of "expertise," citing a 2005…”

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confidence: 99%

Feminist geopolitics and the Middle East: Refuge, belief, and peace

Clark

2017

Geography Compass

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In this article, I draw on the work of feminist and critical political geographers to demonstrate what a feminist geopolitics can offer Middle East studies. I cite scholarship of feminist and critical geographers situated within and outside the region to address three key themes: “refuge,” “belief,” and “peace.” In each theme, I use the “body” as a starting point to convene a justice‐oriented methodology of studying and knowing the Middle East. A major objective and contribution of feminist geopolitics to geography has been to recenter political inquiry from the state to the fleshy matter of the body. A “corporeal geopolitics” understands that all bodies have geopolitical agency, that all bodies are vulnerable—albeit differentially—to politics, and that all bodies are connected within and formative of shared economic, social, and political processes across space. Here, I chart ways that a feminist geopolitical analytic focused on “bodies” can contribute to a more complex understanding of the Middle East, one that operates through specificity, accountability, and care.

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“…M. Smith 2001;Staeheli 2001), and attention to the global intimate (Mountz and Hyndman 2006;Pratt and Rosner 2006) have been met by promising work. This movement builds on the critical geopolitics turn of the 1990s (Ó Tuathail 1996;Ó Tuathail and Dalby 1998) by treating geopolitical understandings of the world as produced knowledge and power, taking seriously the everyday lives of geopolitical practice, and questioning the lines between war and peace.…”

Section: Opening Up Territorymentioning

confidence: 97%