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Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Department of Geography, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK, rachel.pain{at}durham.ac.uk

This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling of emotions, politics and place overlooks agency, resistance and action. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.

Key Words: conscientization • emotion • fear • feminism • geopolitics.

This version was published on August 1, 2009

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 33, No. 4, 466-486 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0309132508104994


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