Meanings
- uncountableThe governance of a polity as if it were a home.
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.
2018, Gwyneth Lonergan, “Reproducing the ‘National Home’: Gendering Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies, volume 22, number 1, page 32 more examples
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.
2004, William Walters, “Secure Borders, Safe Haven, Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies, volume 8, number 3, page 241Though 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 …
2011, Jan Willem Duyvendak, The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Europe and the United States, Palgrave Macmillan, page 23
Origin
Coined by William Walters, from Latin domus (“home”) + politics.
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