Science Fiction and World Politics
Published on 10. June 2003
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-312-29557-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as "Blade Runner", "Stalker", "Star Trek", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, "Science Fiction and World Politics" provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-29557-8 (9780312295578)
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Person
JUTTA WELDES is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minnesota, 1999) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999). She has published Going Cultural: Star Trek, State Action, and Popular Culture (Millennium, 1999) and Globalization is Science Fiction (Millennium, 2001), as well as other articles and book chapters on international relations theory and US foreign policy.
Content
Popular culture, science fiction, and world politics - exploring intertextual relations, J. Weldes; world politics in outer space; "To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar" - diplomacy in "Star Trek", I.B. Neumann; bumpy space - imperialism and resistance in "Star Trek - The Next Generation", N. Inayatullah; aliens among us; aliens, alien nations, and alienation in American political economy and popular culture, R.D. Lipschutz; demon diasporas - confronting the other and the other worldly in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel", P. Molloy; forbidden places, tempting spaces and the politics of desire - on stalker and beyond, A.A. Hozic; future worlds, alternative imaginings; representation is futile? American anti-collectivism and the Borg, P. Jackson & D. Nexon; the problem of the "world and beyond" - encountering "the Other" in science fiction, G. Whitehall; feminist futures - science fiction, utopia, and the art of possibilities in world politics.