The New Violent Cartography : Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn.

"This edited volume will collect a number of essays which propose and examines different though crelated critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the political and draw on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Opondo, Samson (Editor ), Shapiro, Michael J. J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2012.
Temas:
Political geography.
Cartography > Political aspects.
Geopolitics.
Political violence.
Diplomacy.
International relations.
Géographie politique.
Cartographie > Aspect politique.
Géopolitique.
Violence politique.
Diplomatie.
Relations internationales.
geopolitics.
terrorism.
diplomacy.
international relations.
Diplomacy
Geopolitics
International relations
Political geography
Political violence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; The New Violent Cartography; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The new violent cartography: geo-after the aesthetic turn; Part I: Violence, literary and narrative cartographies; 1. Maps and the geography of violence: Farah's Maps and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 2. Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; 3. Beyond imaginative geographies: Critique, cooptation and imagination in the aftermath of the War on Terror; Part II: Warring bodies and bodies politic; 4. Coming home: The temporal presence of the U.S. soldier's wounded body
  • 5. Eater of death6. Diplomatic dissensus: A report on humanitarianism, moral community and the space of death; 7. Reassembling memory: Rithy Panh's S-The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine; 8. The grounds of the violent image in Israel's "Cast Lead" Operation in Gaza; 9. Violent masculinities and the phallocratic aesthetics of power in Kenya; Part III:Continuing violent cartographies and the redistribution of the sensible; 10. The North West Frontier of Pakistan: Preoccupation with "unveiling" the battlefield and the continuing violent cartographies
  • 11. Cyprus, violent cartography and the distribution of ethnic identity12. Dignity, memory and the future under siege: Reconciliation and nation-in post-South Africa; 13. The international aesthetic of the Yasukuni Jinja and Yûshûkan Museum; 14. Repartitioning the U.S.-Mexico border: Cinematic thought, shock, and empathy in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil; 15. A continuing violent cartography: From Guadalupe Hidalgo to contemporary border crossings; Index

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