This third report on the sub-discipline of political geography explores how geographers, of late, have approached, analyzed, de- and re-centered bodies in order to expand understandings of the relationship between the spatial and the political. After reviewing conceptual approaches and thematic areas of study related to the body, I discuss the implications of this work for the broader field of political geography and the importance of engagement with existing social movements that already center the politics of bodies.
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