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P189


Locating the geopolitical: thinking anthropologically about spatialised power politics 
Convenors:
Rozafa Berisha (University of Prishtina)
Claudia Eggart (University of Manchester)
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Discussant:
Rebecca Bryant (Utrecht University)
Formats:
Panel
Mode:
Face-to-face
:
Facultat de Geografia i Història 211
Sessions:
Thursday 25 July, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Madrid

Short Abstract:

How can anthropology contribute to “locate” the geopolitical? How do we approach geopolitics ethnographically? This panel builds on an emerging anthropological interest in geopolitics to consider it as both a subject of scholarly analysis and lived experience.

Long Abstract:

Since feminists argued in the 1970s that "the personal is political" (Hanisch 1970), a prolific cross-disciplinary scholarship explored how the political manifests in people’s everyday lives. The post-Cold War re-ordering of global power structures, however, laid bare the limits of the nation-states politics, revealing how the political is frequently saturated with “geopolitics”. While anthropology has long been invested in examining the ways global power structures unevenly shape everyday lives, such questions were elaborated under the auspices of globalization, border, or mobilities studies. Geopolitics as a subject of anthropological analysis, in and for itself, has entered the discipline only recently. Addressing how the 'geopolitical becomes personal' (Jansen, 2009, p. 821), anthropologists explored its manifestation in the intimate (Smith, 2020) and everyday (Jansen, 2009) realms of life, as well as the subject’s navigational agency under volatile geopolitical circumstances (Marsden, 2021).

This panel builds on this emerging anthropological interest in geopolitics to consider it as both a subject of scholarly analysis and a lived experience. Geopolitics, despite its recent inflationary use, remains a slippery term. Operating across multiple scales, it takes shape through a complex entanglement between the global, national, local and individual. Therefore, we ask how can anthropology contribute to “locate” the geopolitical. How do we approach geopolitics ethnographically? Can anthropological tools help us to capture the complex entanglements and mutually co-producing effects across micro- and macro-scales? We invite papers from diverse contexts that seek a better understanding of affective, material, and everyday effects of increasingly adverse geopolitical forces today.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 25 July, 2024, -
Session 2 Thursday 25 July, 2024, -