Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Pain, R.

doi:10.1177/0309132508104994

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Pain, R.

Authors

R. Pain

Abstract

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.

Citation

Pain, R. (2009). Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics. Progress in Human Geography, 33(4), 466-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132508104994

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Aug 1, 2009
Deposit Date	May 28, 2010
Publicly Available Date	Aug 3, 2010
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Print ISSN	0309-1325
Electronic ISSN	1477-0288
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	33
Issue	4
Pages	466-486
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132508104994
Keywords	Conscientization, Emotion, Fear, Feminism, Geopolitics.

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