Feminist geopolitics: Gender and the everyday production of insecurity through public information campaigns

Developed over the last 25 years, feminist geopolitics is an analytic approach that recenters and rescales geopolitical analysis to illuminate how geopolitics is waged on and through the body and spaces of everyday life. In contrast to the long-prioritized public arenas of geopolitics, such as war fronts and the halls of parliaments, feminist geopolitics showcases the importance of mundane spaces, overlooked scales, and intimate relationships in the production of in/security. We demonstrate the utility of a feminist geopolitical approach through an examination of one strategy of transnational border enforcement: public information campaigns used to affect migration-related decisions. In doing so, we illustrate how these campaigns 1) target spaces of daily life and 2) rely upon and reproduce specific gender ideologies. As we demonstrate, a feminist geopolitical lens challenges the dominate scale of geopolitical analysis and considers the unexpected sites and scales through which global power is continually remade.