“…Woon (2013: 32) argues that this was a call for a new way of ‘doing’ geopolitics, that ethnographies had the power to bring to light ‘(grounded, first‐hand) storylines that are arguably obfuscated by secondary narratives, thereby attesting to the multiple geographies and politics of knowledge production’. These insights can illuminate state‐personnel experiences (for instance, Weisser, 2014; Bachmann, 2016; Gruby & Campbell, 2013; Bornschlegl, 2018), economic processes (Carlisle, 2016; Connolly, 2017; Cook et al, 2004; Cook et al, 2017; Cook & Harrison, 2007; Oliveira, 2018; Watkins, 2018), or the politics of water management (Goh, 2019). However, these insights have frequently been conjoined to new conceptual approaches that have challenged what ‘political’ means in political geography, changing the underlying concept of the subject.…”