domopolitics
English
editEtymology
editCoined by William Walters, from Latin domus (“home”) + politics.
Noun
editdomopolitics (uncountable)
- The governance of a polity as if it were a home.
- 2004, William Walters, “Secure Borders, Safe Haven, Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies[1], volume 8, number 3, page 241:
- 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.
- 2011, Jan Willem Duyvendak, The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Europe and the United States[2], Palgrave Macmillan, page 23:
- 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 …
- 2018, Gwyneth Lonergan, “Reproducing the ‘National Home’: Gendering Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies[3], volume 22, number 1, page 3:
- 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.