Acknowledgments vii1 Introduction 1Geographer at Work: Sara Smith 112 Citizenship Fails 153 Living the Nation 34Geographer at Work: Michelle Daigle 494 Power/Territory 57Geographer at Work: Azeezat Johnson 755 State/Borders 80Geographer at Work: Ali Hamdan 906 Urban Politics 957 Social Movements 116Geographer at Work: Willie Wright 1338 Decolonizing Political Geography? 139Geographer at Work: Deondre Smiles 1489 Geopolitics 16210 Security 179Geographer at Work: Edgar Sandoval 194vi Contents11 Intimate Geopolitics 199Geographer at Work: Pavithra Vasudevan 21312 Biopolitics and Life Itself 21813 Life in the Future, Among the Ruins 235Geographer at Work: Mabel Gergan 249References 254Index 286
Sara Smith is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA). She is a feminist political geographer interested in the relationship between territory, bodies, and the everyday. Her research seeks to understand how politics and geopolitics are constituted through intimate acts of love, friendship, and birth.