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 representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested.

Adams explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, contrasting assertions that torture can function as a legitimate counterterrorism measure with human...

This edited collection brings together a range of research focusing on the political economy of celebrity activism. It seeks to advance current understandings of the complex relationships between celebrity activists, traditional political figures, non-profit organisations, the corporate sector, celebrity audiences and grassroots campaigners. It explores the economic nature of these relationships and how factors such as sponsorship, branding, corporate social responsibility and the marketisation of the non-profit sector are articulated through the celebrity activist.

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Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency, this book examines the development of the dystopian genre and argues that dystopian fictions do not merely mirror what is happening in the world: their narrative conventions actually affect the ways in which we understand the international. Whether we are discussing NSA surveillance, genetic modification and food distribution or authoritarian government, the narrative conventions and generic tropes of dystopian fiction have become an important cultural means and referent by which we grapple with...