Precarious geopolitics and the possibilities of nonviolence
- 2 September 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Progress in Human Geography
- Vol. 38 (5), 654-670
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513501403
Abstract
This paper examines the deployment of nonviolence within critical geopolitics. It contends that geographers’ engagements with nonviolence lack grounding, often sliding towards ethical appeals for people’s responsive commitments. Building on Judith Butler’s notion of ‘precarious lives’, I underscore the emotional impetuses through which nonviolence can be harnessed as a concrete pathway for social change. ‘Precarious geopolitics’ as I call it, represents a geopolitics that is sensitive and sympathetic to the claims of nonviolence and a subdiscipline that can seize the opportune juncture truly to reposition itself as one of the arts of peace.Keywords
This publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
- Recontextualising violence, power and nature: The next twenty years of critical geopolitics?Political Geography, 2010
- Space for emotion in the spaces of activismEmotion, Space and Society, 2009
- ‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activismEmotion, Space and Society, 2009
- EMOTIONS THAT BUILD NETWORKS: GEOGRAPHIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN ARGENTINA AND BEYONDTijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 2007
- Precarity UnboundAlternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2007
- The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Three Decades of Human Rights' Activism: Embeddedness, Emotions, and Social MovementsAnnals of the American Association of Geographers, 2006
- Making connections and thinking through emotions: between geography and psychotherapyTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2005
- Fetishising Violence, Marginalising the Human DimensionAntipode, 2005
- Deliver us from evil? Prospects for living ethically and acting politically in human geographyProgress in Human Geography, 2002
- A Feminist Geopolitics?Space and Polity, 2001