@article{ref1,
title="Feminist geopolitics and the Middle East: refuge, belief, and peace",
journal="Geography compass",
year="2017",
author="Clark, Jessie Hanna",
volume="11",
number="2",
pages="e12304-e12304",
abstract="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: &quot;refuge,&quot; &quot;belief,&quot; and &quot;peace.&quot; In each theme, I use the &quot;body&quot; 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 &quot;corporeal geopolitics&quot; 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 &quot;bodies&quot; can contribute to a more complex understanding of the Middle East, one that operates through specificity, accountability, and care.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1749-8198",
doi="10.1111/gec3.12304",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12304"
}