Domopolitics
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Domopolitics is a noun meaning The governance of a polity as if it were a home.
Meaning
The governance of a polity as if it were a home.
Example Sentences
While anxieties about migrant women’s reproductive activities are not new, the emergence of domopolitics has greatly expanded the securitisation and disciplining of these activities.
Though William Walters developed his concept of ‘domopolitics’ for the US in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it aptly describes recent developments in Western Europe as well …
If modern political economy echoes the project of government in the image of the household, domopolitics refers to the government of the state (but, crucially, other political spaces as well) as a home.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include megapolitics, cosmopolity, petropolitics, state, politocracy, politicomania.
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