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Battlestar Galactica and International Relations.
Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts - popular or otherwise - for the phenomena that make up the core of ou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Popular culture and world politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Battlestar Galactica and International Relations; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Circulating on board the Battlestar; 2 Critical humanism: Theory, methodology, and Battlestar Galactica; 3 'Religion in sort of a global sense': The relevance of religious practices for political community in Battlestar Galactica and beyond; 4 'The future of humanity begins with a choice': Narrating techno-rational subsumption and micropolitics in International Relations and Battlestar Galactica.
- 5 Machines that matter: The politics and ethics of 'unnatural' bodies6 'And they have a plan': Critical reflections on Battlestar Galactica and the hyperreal genocide; 7 So say who all?: Cosmopolitanism, hybridity, and colonialism in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica; 8 Security or human security?: Civil-military relations in Battlestar Galactica; 9 Cylons in Baghdad: Experiencing counter-insurgency in Battlestar Galactica; 10 Seeing others: Battlestar Galactica's portrayal of insurgents at a time of war.