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Nationalism and Popular Culture
Av Tim Nieguth
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly? This book argues that the power of national identity and national belonging stems, in part, from the ways in which nationalism is embedded in popular culture.Comprised of chapters covering a wide range of cases from both the …
Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir
What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics
Häftad, 2022
693 kr
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With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir, this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series from Scandinavia and Finland, as well as the impact of such programmes on how northern Europe is viewed around the world.Drawing on a diverse set of …
Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought
Narratives of World Politics
Av Adam Stock
Häftad, 2020
914 kr
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Over the past few years, ‘dystopia’ has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural value in representing fears and anxieties about …
Post-Communist Aesthetics
Revolutions, capitalism, violence
Av Anca Pusca
Häftad, 2020
459 kr
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In this book, Anca Pusca seeks to extend the aesthetic and cultural turn in international relations to an analysis of post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Ranciere, the work investigates how post-communist film, …
Brexit and the Migrant Voice
EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2022
2894 kr
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Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and working in the UK by assessing their representation in British and European cultural productions (literature, drama, the media) and by foregrounding their attitudes, their fears, and …
Brexit and the Migrant Voice
EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2024
597 kr
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Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and working in the UK by assessing their representation in British and European cultural productions (literature, drama, the media) and by foregrounding their attitudes, their fears, and …
Political Economy of Celebrity Activism
Häftad, 2021
795 kr
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This edited collection brings together scholarly works of both a theoretical and empirical nature to critically analyse the forms and functions of the contemporary celebrity activist and to examine how these intersect with the political economic structures in which celebrity activists operate. …
International Politics of Fashion
Being Fab in a Dangerous World
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the aesthetic turn in IR, critical and ‘postmodern’ IR has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate, and …
Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age
Av Laura J. Shepherd, Caitlin Hamilton
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented, with even those previously – or conventionally assumed to be – disengaged from international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive websites allow users to follow election results in …
Political Torture in Popular Culture
The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate
Av Alex Adams
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural …
Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror
Sensible Interventions
Av Jenifer Chao
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that popular …
Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction
Häftad, 2019
578 kr
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We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant …
Gender, Violence and Popular Culture
Telling Stories
Inbunden, 2012
2525 kr
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This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, …
Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism
Why women are in refrigerators and other stories
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
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While some have argued that we live in a ‘postfeminist’ era that renders feminism irrelevant to people’s contemporary lives this book takes ‘feminism’, the source of eternal debate, contestation and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular, cultural practices of everyday life. It …
Post-Communist Aesthetics
Revolutions, capitalism, violence
Av Anca Pusca
Inbunden, 2015
1530 kr
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In this book, Anca Pusca seeks to extend the aesthetic and cultural turn in international relations to an analysis of post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Ranciere, the work investigates how post-communist film, …
Gender, Violence and Popular Culture
Telling Stories
Häftad, 2012
827 kr
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This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, …
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
Inbunden, 2012
2759 kr
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Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of …
Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism
The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last …
Battlestar Galactica and International Relations
Av Nicholas Kiersey, Iver Neumann
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of …
Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism
Why women are in refrigerators and other stories
Häftad, 2015
768 kr
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While some have argued that we live in a ‘postfeminist’ era that renders feminism irrelevant to people’s contemporary lives this book takes ‘feminism’, the source of eternal debate, contestation and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular, cultural practices of everyday life. It …
Sexing War/Policing Gender
Motherhood, myth and women’s political violence
Av Linda Åhäll
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
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Historically, there has been reluctance, from mainstream IR scholars as well as feminists, to seriously engage with women’s agency in warfare. Instead, scholarship has tended to focus on women’s activism for peace or to ignore women’s agency altogether.This book rectifies this omission by exploring …
Politics of HBO's The Wire
Everything is Connected
Av Shirin Deylami, Jonathan Havercroft
Häftad, 2016
651 kr
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This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As such, it is a visual text worth investigating and exploring for its nuanced examination of power, …
Politics of HBO's The Wire
Everything is Connected
Av Shirin Deylami, Jonathan Havercroft
Inbunden, 2014
2759 kr
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This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As such, it is a visual text worth investigating and exploring for its nuanced examination of power, …
Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction
Inbunden, 2018
1759 kr
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We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant …
Sexing War/Policing Gender
Motherhood, myth and women’s political violence
Av Linda Åhäll
Häftad, 2017
827 kr
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Historically, there has been reluctance, from mainstream IR scholars as well as feminists, to seriously engage with women’s agency in warfare. Instead, scholarship has tended to focus on women’s activism for peace or to ignore women’s agency altogether.This book rectifies this omission by exploring …
Politicised Cinema
Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good.Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture, a film …
Politicised Cinema
Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good.Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture, a film …
Art of Global Power
Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices
Av Emily Merson
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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Artwork and popular cultures are crucial sites of contesting and transforming power relationships in world politics. The contributors to this edited collection draw on their experiences across arts, activist, and academic communities to analyze how the global politics of colonialism, capitalism, …
Nationalism and Popular Culture
Av Tim Nieguth
Häftad, 2021
671 kr
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How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly? This book argues that the power of national identity and national belonging stems, in part, from the ways in which nationalism is embedded in popular culture.Comprised of chapters covering a wide range of cases from both the …
Art of Populism in US Politics
Pro-Trump DIY Popular Culture
Av Justin Patch
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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The Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and artistic expressions in the United States in the Trump era.Beginning with comparisons between frontier populism and millennial-era populism, the author examines how citizens imitate and improvise on political …
