wyszukanych pozycji: 13
The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780415577540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony America has devised as a response to these new security threats. The essays explore three primary areas. First, they interrogate the responses to 9/11 that resulted in an attempt at geopolitical mastery by the United States. Second, they examine how the US response to 9/11 led to attempts... This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11... |
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225,98 zł |
Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics
ISBN: 9780415780599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93. Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era. This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of life, a crucial biopolitical theme. Debrix and... 'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL... |
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744,88 zł |
Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics
ISBN: 9780415772907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the methods, effects, and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelationships of national identity formation, corporate 'news and opinion' dissemination, and the quasi-academic apparatus of war justification - focusing on the Bush administration's exploitation of the fear and insecurity caused by 9/11 and how this has manifested itself in the US media (especially the tabloid populist media). Debrix explains how all serve to defend and produce state power and develops a model of tabloidized international relations,... This book analyzes the methods, effects, and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelations... |
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796,26 zł |
Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics
ISBN: 9780415772914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the methods, effects, and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelationships of national identity formation, corporate news and opinion dissemination, and the quasi-academic apparatus of war justification - focusing on the Bush administration's exploitation of the fear and insecurity caused by 9/11 and how this has manifested itself in the US media (especially the tabloid populist media). Debrix explains how all serve to defend and produce state power and develops a model of tabloidized international relations,...
This book analyzes the methods, effects, and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelati...
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225,98 zł |
Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World
ISBN: 9780765610829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic/discursive techniques of postmodernists and constructivists, and apply them (Part II) to international relations.
Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate his...
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225,98 zł |
Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning
ISBN: 9780816640751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A timely consideration of the meaning of transnational cultural interactions today. In an era of increasing globalization, the cultural and the international have borders as permeable as most nations'--and an understanding of one requires making sense of the other. Foregrounding the role of mediation--understood here as a site of representation, transformation, and pluralization--the authors engage two specific questions: How might we make theoretical and practical sense of transnational cultural interactions? And how are we to understand the ways in which the sites of mediation represent,...
A timely consideration of the meaning of transnational cultural interactions today. In an era of increasing globalization, the cultural and the intern...
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123,24 zł |
Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces
ISBN: 9780415741422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of... Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human... |
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225,98 zł |
Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World
ISBN: 9780765610812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic/discursive techniques of postmodernists and constructivists, and apply them (Part II) to international relations.
Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate his...
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693,51 zł |
Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology Volume 13
ISBN: 9780816632374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Time and again the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping missions in trouble spots around the globe: Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda. Has peace ensured? Have these missions, in fact, made any difference in the disorder and destruction they are purported to forestall? Or are they, as Francois Debrix contends, an illusion -- more virtual peacekeeping than actual interventions in international affairs?
Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping is a critical revisiting of UN interventions. Addressing the question, "How do UN peacekeeping missions shape the contemporary vision of international affairs?" the... Time and again the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping missions in trouble spots around the globe: Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda. Has peace ensur...
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112,97 zł |
Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces
ISBN: 9780415741415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of... Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human... |
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693,51 zł |
Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations
ISBN: 9781138313149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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693,51 zł |
Beyond Biopolitics : Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics
ISBN: 9780415643665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume seeks to explore the relationship between violence (its quantity, its varied forms, and its daunting consequences) in the post-9/11-War on Terror era and the contemporary status of critical political theorizing.
This volume seeks to explore the relationship between violence (its quantity, its varied forms, and its daunting consequences) in the post-9/11-War on...
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277,36 zł |
The Geopolitics of American Insecurity : Terror, Power and Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780415460422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of essays seeks to explore the future of US security politics in light of the fiasco of the Iraq War, the failure to protect populations after Hurricane Katrina, and growing geopolitical anxieties.
This collection of essays seeks to explore the future of US security politics in light of the fiasco of the Iraq War, the failure to protect populatio...
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770,57 zł |