Feminist geographies of state power

In this chapter we explore feminist approaches to understanding governance and state spatialities. We review both historic and recent developments in feminist approaches to the study of state power, noting the theoretical and methodological importance of multi-scalar attention to the state processes which manifest and reverberate in private spaces, such as the home and the body. To support and enrich the following chapters, we offer a review of feminist geographical scholarship on the state and on how state governance manifests itself in everyday experiences of (in)security, policing, detention, bordering, social reproduction and intimate violence.