TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Feminist geopolitics and the Middle East: refuge, belief, and peace
JO  - Geography compass
A1  - Clark, Jessie Hanna
SP  - e12304
EP  - e12304
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
N2  - 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: "refuge," "belief," and "peace." In each theme, I use the "body" 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 "corporeal geopolitics" 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 "bodies" can contribute to a more complex understanding of the Middle East, one that operates through specificity, accountability, and care.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1749-8198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12304
ID  - ref1
ER  -