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Popular Geopolitics 2.0: Towards New Methodologies of the Everyday
Article first published online: 5 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00399.x
© 2010 The Authors. Geography Compass © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Dittmer, J. and Gray, N. (2010), Popular Geopolitics 2.0: Towards New Methodologies of the Everyday. Geography Compass, 4: 1664–1677. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00399.x
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This paper argues for the renewal of popular geopolitics through the adoption of a research agenda that emphasizes everyday life. Popular geopolitics as commonly practiced has adopted a focus on textual deconstruction that neglects the practices and performances that mark much of the everyday experience of the geopolitical. This paper reviews the literature on feminist geopolitics, non-representational theory, and audience studies to find points of intersection between them. Following this a renewed popular geopolitics based on the common themes of embodiment, emotions/affect, performativity, and post-human networks is sketched out. It is hoped that this ‘popular geopolitics 2.0’ might allow scholars to truly engage with the everyday without trying to impose a new theoretical orthodoxy.