Harry Potter and International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harry Potter and International Relations write by Daniel H. Nexon. This book was released on 2006. Harry Potter and International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on a range of historical and sociological sources, this work shows how aspects of Harry's world contain aspects of our own. It also includes chapters on the political economy of the franchise, and on the problems of studying popular culture.
The Politics of Harry Potter
The Politics of Harry Potter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Harry Potter write by B. Barratt. This book was released on 2012-11-09. The Politics of Harry Potter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This political analysis of Harry Potter uses the beloved wizarding world to introduce readers to the equally murky and intimidating world of politics. Rowling's work provides us with entries into all of the most important political questions in history, from terrorism and human rights to the classic foundations of political thought.
Harry Potter and the Millennials
Harry Potter and the Millennials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harry Potter and the Millennials write by Anthony Gierzynski. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Harry Potter and the Millennials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harry Potter and the Millennials tells the fascinating story of how the team designed the study and gathered results, explains what conclusions can and cannot be drawn, and reveals the challenges social scientists face in studying political science, sociology, and mass communication. Specifically, the evidence indicates that Harry Potter fans are more open to diversity and are more politically tolerant than nonfans; fans are also less authoritarian, less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture, more politically active, and more likely to have had a negative view of the Bush administration. Furthermore, these differences do not disappear when controlling for other important predictors of these perspectives, lending support to the argument that the series indeed had an independent effect on its audience. In this clear and cogent account, Gierzynski demonstrates how social scientists develop and design research questions and studies.
Battlestar Galactica and International Relations
Battlestar Galactica and International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battlestar Galactica and International Relations write by Nicholas J. Kiersey. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Battlestar Galactica and International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 our discipline. The genre of science fiction offers the analyst an opportunity that cannot be matched by more mimetic genres, namely the chance to look at how sets of widely-circulating expectations of the social serve to constrain authors as they work to introduce as yet unexplored problematiques, the fantasy aspect in much of science fiction storytelling is premised simply on a material difference. As such, while the physical setting of a science fiction tale might appear novel, its imaginative life world will likely retain many elements of the world we already live in and which we can readily recognize as similar to our own. For Critical IR scholarship then, BSG presents an opportunity to examine how these purported homologies or elements of redundancy between the fantastic and the real have been drawn and perhaps to consider, too, whether the show can teach us things about world politics, its various logics and structures, which we might not otherwise be sensitive to. Tackling some of the key contemporary issues in IR, the writers of BSG have taken on a range of important political themes and issues, including the legitimacy of military government, the tactical utility of genocide, and even the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence technologies for the very category of what it means to be 'human'. The contributors in this book explore in depth the argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture is to naturalize or normalise a certain social order by further entrenching the expectations of social behaviour upon which our mentalities of rule are founded. This work will be of interest to student and scholars of international relations, popular culture and security studies.
Otherworldly Politics
Otherworldly Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Otherworldly Politics write by Stephen Benedict Dyson. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Otherworldly Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To help students think critically about international relations and politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television shows:Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica. Deeply familiar with the events, themes, characters, and plot lines of these popular shows, students can easily draw parallels from fictive worlds to contemporary international relations and political scenarios. In Dyson's experience, this engagement is frequently powerful enough to push classroom conversations out into the hallways and onto online discussion boards. In Otherworldly Politics, Dyson explains how these shows are plotted to offer alternative histories and future possibilities for humanity. Fascinated by politics and history, science fiction and fantasy screenwriters and showrunners suffuse their scripts with real-world ideas of empire, war, civilization, and culture, lending episodes a compelling intricacy and contemporary resonance. Dyson argues that science fiction and fantasy television creators share a fundamental kinship with great minds in international relations. Creators like Gene Roddenberry, George R. R. Martin, and Ronald D. Moore are world-builders of no lesser creativity, Dyson argues, than theorists such as Woodrow Wilson, Kenneth Waltz, and Alexander Wendt. Each of these thinkers imagines a realm, specifies the rules of its operation, and by so doing seeks to teach us something about ourselves and how we interact with one another. A vital spur to creative thinking for scholars and an accessible introduction for students, this book will also appeal to fans of these three influential shows.
