Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415632812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 240 str.

Iver B. Neumann; Nicholas J. Kiersey

Opis

The contributors in this book explore in depth the argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture is to naturalize or normalise a certain social order by further entrenching the expectations of social behaviour upon which our mentalities of rule are founded.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2.Critical Humanism: Theory, Methodology, and Battlestar Galactica  3.Religion in Sort of a Global Sense’: The Relevance of Religious Practices for Political Community in Battlestar Galactica and Beyond  4.Narrating identity, techno-rational subsumption and micropolitics in International Relations and Battlestar Galactica  5.Machines that Matter: The Politics and Ethics of ‘Unnatural’ Bodies 6. Critical Reflections on Battlestar Galactica and the Hyperreal Genocide 7. So Say Who All? Cosmopolitanism, Hybridity, and Colonialism in the Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica 8.Security or Human Security? Civil-Military Relations in Battlestar Galactica. 9. Cylons in Baghdad: Experiencing Counter-Insurgency in Battlestar Galactica 10.Seeing Others: Battlestar Galactica’s Portrayal of Insurgents at a Time of War  11. Conclusion

O autorze

Iver B. Neumann is research director at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Nicholas J. Kiersey is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Ohio University.