Thailand’s strategic efforts to enhance its brand through LGBTQ+ rights serves as both entertainment and a reflection of the country’s progressive values.
There is a growing awareness of humanity’s precarious place in the universe and an emergent sense that the heavens cannot be conquered.
The fact that events portrayed in fiction could be so easily and uncritically confused for events that really transpired raises questions.
Taylor Robertson McDonald sets out the importance of narratives in IR, particularly how they contribute to shifting national identities and foreign policy formation.
Developments in popular culture can be linked to an ideological shift from Arabism to Arab regionalism, more occupied with cooperation and economic coordination than identity politics.
Picturebooks are a vitally important, yet largely neglected, site in which world politics is (re)produced, negotiated, and contested.
Jason Dittmer discusses what the discipline of Geography can bring to IR, the relationship between popular culture and International Relations, and media as a vessel for nationalism.
This second edition presents fascinating demonstrations of popular culture in action and considers popular culture beyond the representational.
In looking at popular geopolitics as a kind of “post-language”, we can use sport as a metaphor of national identity.
The zombie performs a radical function in our thinking by exposing – albeit hyperbolically – the very real limits of contemporary capitalism.
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