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1 online resource (238 pages) |
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Popular Culture and World Politics |
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Popular culture and world politics.
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Cover; Battlestar Galactica and International Relations; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Circulating on board the Battlestar; 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 'The future of humanity begins with a choice': Narrating techno-rational subsumption and micropolitics in International Relations and Battlestar Galactica |
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5 Machines that matter: The politics and ethics of 'unnatural' bodies6 'And they have a plan': 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 |
| Summary |
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 our discipline. The genre of science fiction offers the analyst an opportunity that cannot be matched by more mimetic genres, namely the chance to look at how sets of widely-circulating expectations of the social serve to constrain authors as they work to introduce as yet une |
| Notes |
11 Interpret this volume!: What we've learned about Battlestar Galactica's International Relations scholar-fansIndex |
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Print version record |
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Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2004-2009) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007012520
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Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2004-2009) fast |
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Television programs -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neumann, Iver B
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| ISBN |
9781135089696 |
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1135089698 |
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