domopolitics means the governance of a polity as if it were a home. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why “domopolitics” is a great word
DOMOPOLITICS — [Noun] The governance of a polity, especially in matters of security and immigration, employing the rhetoric and logic of protecting the home. Coined by William Walters from the Latin domus ("home, household") and the English word politics. Unlike geopolitics, which charts the grand chessboard of states and spheres of influence, or biopolitics, which administers the biological life of populations, domopolitics is the meticulous curation of the threshold. It is the biometric scanner at the border recast as a household lock, the national budget presented as a family ledger, and the immigration act framed as a vetting of guests for the family table—a politics that shrinks the civic imagination to the anxious dimensions of a fortress mistaken for a home.
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- The governance of a polity as if it were a home.“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.”