Popular Culture

The UN through the Pop-Culture Looking Glass

Pablo Castillo Diaz • Jan 24 2016 • Articles

At 70 years of age the United Nations barely registers in the history of either the big or the small screen, and when it does the results are markedly unflattering.

On Putin, Politics, and Popular Culture: An Interview with Alexander J. Motyl

Robert A. Saunders • Dec 8 2015 • Articles

Alexander J. Motyl discusses his new book, Vovochka, as well as politics, popular culture, and the subject of this satirical romp, Vladimir Putin.

Homeland’s Popular Geopolitics Gets Punked

Robert A. Saunders • Nov 24 2015 • Articles

The graffiti prank on the set of ‘Homeland’ is an act that represents a physical realization that the pop-culture canvas can be subverted even in the process.

VVP: Is Vladimir Putin the Super-Villain We’ve All Been Waiting For?

Robert A. Saunders • Sep 22 2015 • Articles

Like Osama bin Laden circa 2000, Vladimir Putin, while real enough, is more a figment of our popular-geopolitical imagination, and one which we cannot live without.

‘Warm Bodies’: A ZomRomCom Discourse on Counterinsurgency

Kristina Pasko • Jul 13 2015 • Articles

The hit 2013 zombie movie ‘Warm Bodies’ offers a means of understanding counterinsurgency strategies, as well as a critique of such strategies.

Pedagogy and Pop Culture: Pop Culture as Teaching Tool and Assessment Practice

William Clapton • Jun 23 2015 • Articles

While pop culture is not without its problems, it offers differing, potentially more accessible insights on the international that are not found in standard IR textbooks.

The Challenges of Teaching Popular Culture and World Politics

Kyle Grayson • Jun 20 2015 • Articles

A common mistake when teaching popular culture and world politics is to overestimate the skill set that students will bring with them into the course.

Imperial Imaginaries: Employing Science Fiction to Talk about Geopolitics

Robert A. Saunders • Jun 11 2015 • Articles

Pop Culture stages debates on complex topics associated with the history of imperialism, geopolitical thinking and the relationship between territory, space and power.

What Does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like?

Matt Davies and Marianna I. Franklin • Jun 9 2015 • Articles

Music and music-making can enhance a body of work that looks to de-reify received analytical categories of the discipline and thereby continue to enrich its key debates.

Review – Sexing War/Policing Gender

Federica Caso • Jun 8 2015 • Features

Åhäll’s volume explores cultural representations of female political agency and female political violence through the metanarrative of motherhood.

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