Methodologically, a constructive encounter with videogames relies on reflection on narrative, visual and aural elements, and gameplay.
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
Reading ‘The Americans’ through an Enloe inspired lens offers an example of the potential to explore the feminist critique of the public/private divide.
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
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.
Representational logics, emotion and affect, and intertextuality offer methodological insights into how popular geopolitics connects to the war on terror.
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.
Images and emotions are everywhere in politics, and yet they have only recently become a serious and systematic topic of investigation in academia.
Scholars from assorted perspectives are eagerly and productively investigating myriad forms of pop culture in relation to every conceivable aspect of 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.
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