domopolitics

English

Etymology

Coined by William Walters, from Latin domus (home) + politics.

Noun

domopolitics (uncountable)

  1. The governance of a polity as if it were a home.
    • 2004, William Walters, “Secure Borders, Safe Haven, Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies, 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, 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, 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.
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