Domopolitics

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.

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 …

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.