Videogames and IR: Playing at Method
Methodologically, a constructive encounter with videogames relies on reflection on narrative, visual and aural elements, and gameplay.
Film and World Politics
To appreciate this politics of film for IR we can contrast the way film challenges the more static media within which exchanges of recognition among states takes place
Making Feminist Sense of ‘The Americans’
Reading ‘The Americans’ through an Enloe inspired lens offers an example of the potential to explore the feminist critique of the public/private divide.
Worlds of Our Making in Science Fiction and International Relations
Sci-fi is able to pose fictional worlds that, while cognitively coherent on their own terms, inevitably maintain a link with the experiences we share in our own world
The Hidden Politics of Militarization and Pop Culture as Political Communication
Unless we pay attention to what is happening beyond the most visibly militarised context we will miss an important dimension to the logics of militarisation.
Popular Geopolitics and the ‘War on Terror’
Representational logics, emotion and affect, and intertextuality offer methodological insights into how popular geopolitics connects to the war on terror.
On Captain America and ‘Doing’ Popular Culture in the Social Sciences
Popular culture is a ‘doing’. This liveliness is what is lost when popular culture is reduced to a ‘thing’. It is the entire assemblage that produces political effects.
Popular Culture and Political Identity
Images and emotions are everywhere in politics, and yet they have only recently become a serious and systematic topic of investigation in academia.
So, How Does Popular Culture Relate to World Politics?
Scholars from assorted perspectives are eagerly and productively investigating myriad forms of pop culture in relation to every conceivable aspect of world politics
Edited Collection – Popular Culture and World Politics
This edited collection offers a holistic approach to an exciting field of research and contributes to the establishment of Pop Culture and World Politics as a sub-discipline of International Relations.
