Popular Culture

Visual Culture and Outer Space Futures

James Lowder • Oct 10 2023 • Articles

There is a growing awareness of humanity’s precarious place in the universe and an emergent sense that the heavens cannot be conquered.

Pop Culture to Conspiracy: Star Trek and the Nimitz ‘Tic Tac’ Case in the Context of Congressional UAP Hearings

Luke M. Herrington • Aug 14 2023 • Articles

The fact that events portrayed in fiction could be so easily and uncritically confused for events that really transpired raises questions.

Interview – Taylor Robertson McDonald

E-International Relations • Jun 4 2023 • Features

Taylor Robertson McDonald sets out the importance of narratives in IR, particularly how they contribute to shifting national identities and foreign policy formation.

The Evolution of Arabism: From One Arab Idol to Multiple Arab Idols

Noor Suwwan • May 18 2023 • Articles

Developments in popular culture can be linked to an ideological shift from Arabism to Arab regionalism, more occupied with cooperation and economic coordination than identity politics.

Childrens’ Picturebooks and World Politics

Lee Jarvis and Nick Robinson • Apr 25 2023 • Articles

Picturebooks are a vitally important, yet largely neglected, site in which world politics is (re)produced, negotiated, and contested.

Interview – Jason Dittmer

E-International Relations • Nov 7 2021 • Features

Jason Dittmer discusses what the discipline of Geography can bring to IR, the relationship between popular culture and International Relations, and media as a vessel for nationalism.

Review – Popular Culture, Geopolitics and Identity

Adagbo Onoja • Jan 17 2021 • Features

This second edition presents fascinating demonstrations of popular culture in action and considers popular culture beyond the representational.

Future of Popular Geopolitics: Croatia, Affective Nationalism and the World Cup

MašaKolanović • Oct 30 2018 • Articles

In looking at popular geopolitics as a kind of “post-language”, we can use sport as a metaphor of national identity.

The Future of Popular Geopolitics: Zombie Evolution and the Return to the Social

Shannon Brincat and Roxanne Chaitowitz • Oct 4 2018 • Articles

The zombie performs a radical function in our thinking by exposing – albeit hyperbolically – the very real limits of contemporary capitalism.

The Future of Popular Geopolitics: Mega-Shark Cinematic Diplomacy

Chris Homewood • Sep 21 2018 • Articles

Amidst rising tensions, Hollywood films such as The Meg present an idealized image of harmony between the U.S. and China.

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