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Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling of emotions, politics and place overlooks agency, resistance and action. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.

Source: Progress in Human Geography

DOI: 10.1177/0309132508104994

Author: Rachel Pain

Institution: Durham University

Language: English

Topic: International Relations and Foreign Policy

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Johns Hopkins University, Leverhulme Trust

OpenAlex ID: W2088989462

FWCI: 104.9

Cites: 111

Cited by: 468

Related to: 10