Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age

212 Pages·2016·2.548 MB·English

by  Laura J. Shepherd, Caitlin Hamilton (eds.)

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Understanding Popular Culture
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1 J The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented,
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3 international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive
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8 websites allow users to follow election results in real-time from the other side of
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a, these sites of political activity and the artefacts they produce have much to tell us
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a Caitlin Hamilton i s a doctoral candidate in International Relations at UNSW
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Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor of International Relations at UNSW
Australia. She works at the intersection of gendered global politics, security, and
the politics of representation. Laura is the author/editor of fi ve books, includ-
ing G ender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International
Relations (London: Routledge, 2nd edn, 2015) and G ender, Violence and Popular
Culture: Telling Stories (London: Routledge, 2013).
Popular Culture and World Politics
Edited by Matt Davies, Kyle Grayson and Simon Philpott
Newcastle University
Christina Rowley and Jutta Weldes
U niversity of Bristol
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1 J The Popular Culture World Politics (PCWP) book series is the forum for leading
1 interdisciplinary research that explores the profound and diverse interconnections
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b design, architecture, programming, leisure, sport, fandom, and celebrity. The series
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Telling stories
Laura J. Shepherd
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
John Champagne
Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism
The new millennium Hollywood rom com
Betty Kaklamanidou
Battlestar Galactica and International Relations
Edited by Iver B Neumann and Nicholas J Kiersey
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First published 2016
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n Names: Shepherd, Laura J., editor. | Hamilton, Caitlin, editor.
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S Title: Understanding popular culture and world politics in the digital age /
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i Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Popular culture in
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Contents
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1 J List of fi gures ix
1 Foreword by Kyle Grayson x
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5 Marketing militarism in the digital age: arms production,
YouTube and selling ‘national security’ 68
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6 Remaking the global: social media and undocumented
immigrants in the US 83
MEGHANA V. NAYAK
7 The digital politics of celebrity activism against
sexual violence: Angelina Jolie Pitt as global mother 101
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