To seek out new worlds : science fiction and world politics

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To seek out new worlds : science fiction and world politics

edited by Jutta Weldes

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.5

  • : hardback
  • : paper

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To seek out new worlds : exploring links between science fiction and world politics

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hardback ISBN 9780312295578

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
Volume

: paper ISBN 9781403960580

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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