The Politics of Hbo's the Wire: Everything Is Connected

ISBN-13: 9780415791168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016

Shirin Deylami; Jonathan Havercroft

Opis

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, difference and inequality. 

Recenzje

"Contributors explore what The Wire, with its compelling narrative about institutional corruption and systemic failures in civic life, can teach viewers about political theory...this collection emphasizes quality over quantity, and each essay is as smart as the one before."--S. Pepper, Northeastern Illinois University, CHOICE

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: Everything is Connected, Shirin S. Deylami & Jonathan Havercroft PART ONE: Building States, Crumbling Nations, 1. It Can’t Be a Lie’: The Wire as Breaching Experiment, Joshua Page & Joe Soss 2. Classroom Democracy: De-mystifying the Civic Nation in The Wire, Paul Goode PART TWO: Neo-Liberalism, Capitalist Power and Social Resistance 3. The Politics of Knowledge Production: On Structure and the World of "The Wire, Isaac Kamola 4. Corruption as Solidarity: An Inverted Republicanism to Resist Inverted Totalitarianism, Jonathan Havercroft 5. The Limits of Neoliberalism: Market Rationality in The Wire, Elisabeth Anker PART THREE: Precarious Intersections 6. "It’s All in the Game": Masculinism, Mourning, and Violence in The Wire, Shirin S. Deylami 7. Seeing Gender Like a Wired State: The Missing Women of the Wire, Dara Z. Strolovitch & Naomi Murakawa

O autorze

Shirin Deylami is Assistant Professor of Political Science, with affiliations in Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, and Islamic Studies, at Western Washington University. Her research interest lie at the intersection of feminist theory and comparative political thought. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Westoxification: Islamic Makings of the West. Her work has been published in the journals Polity and International Feminist Journal of Politics (forthcoming).

Jonathan Havercroft is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma with specialization in political theory. His primary research focus is on the historical transformation of sovereignty in the discourses of political philosophy from the 17th century to the present. He has also published essays grappling with conceptions of freedom, power, and sovereignty in early modern and contemporary political thought. His work has appeared in Constellations and Review of International Studies. His book, Captives of Sovereignty, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.