Popular Culture

Film and World Politics

Michael J. Shapiro • May 23 2015 • Articles

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

Making Feminist Sense of ‘The Americans’

Lucy Hall • May 20 2015 • Articles

Reading ‘The Americans’ through an Enloe inspired lens offers an example of the potential to explore the feminist critique of the public/private divide.

Worlds of Our Making in Science Fiction and International Relations

Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann • May 19 2015 • Articles

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

The Hidden Politics of Militarization and Pop Culture as Political Communication

Linda Åhäll • May 16 2015 • Articles

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.

Popular Geopolitics and the ‘War on Terror’

Klaus Dodds • May 10 2015 • Articles

Representational logics, emotion and affect, and intertextuality offer methodological insights into how popular geopolitics connects to the war on terror.

On Captain America and ‘Doing’ Popular Culture in the Social Sciences

Jason Dittmer • May 5 2015 • Articles

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.

Popular Culture and Political Identity

Constance Duncombe and Roland Bleiker • May 2 2015 • Articles

Images and emotions are everywhere in politics, and yet they have only recently become a serious and systematic topic of investigation in academia.

So, How Does Popular Culture Relate to World Politics?

Jutta Weldes and Christina Rowley • Apr 29 2015 • Articles

Scholars from assorted perspectives are eagerly and productively investigating myriad forms of pop culture in relation to every conceivable aspect of world politics

Edited Collection – Popular Culture and World Politics

E-International Relations • Apr 22 2015 • Features

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.

The Forgotten Story of ‘Me Llamo Martina Sola’

Melixa Abad Izquierdo • Apr 15 2015 • Articles

Outside of Latin America telenovelas are perceived as a generic product. But each country possesses a unique form of telenovela, identifiable by its stylistic attributes.

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