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Popular Culture and World Politics


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The Popular Culture World Politics (PCWP) book series is the forum for leading interdisciplinary research that explores the profound and diverse interconnections between popular culture and world politics. It aims to bring further innovation, rigor, and recognition to this emerging sub-field of international relations.

To these ends, the PCWP series is interested in various themes, from the juxtaposition of cultural artefacts that are increasingly global in scope and regional, local and domestic forms of production, distribution and consumption; to the confrontations between cultural life and global political, social, and economic forces; to the new or emergent forms of politics that result from the rescaling or internationalization of popular culture.

Similarly, the PCWP series wishes to provide a venue for work that explores the effects of new technologies and new media on established practices of representation and the making of political meaning. It encourages engagement with popular culture as a means for contesting powerful narratives of particular events and political settlements as well as explorations of the ways that popular culture informs mainstream political discourse. The PCWP series promotes investigation into how popular culture contributes to changing perceptions of time, space, scale, identity, and participation while establishing the outer limits of what is popularly understood as ‘political’ or ‘cultural’.

In addition to film, television, literature, and art, the PCWP series actively encourages research into diverse artefacts including sound, music, food cultures, gaming, design, architecture, programming, leisure, sport, fandom and celebrity. The series is fiercely pluralist in its approaches to the study of popular culture and world politics and is interested in the past, present, and future cultural dimensions of hegemony, resistance and power.

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The Art of Populism in US Politics Pro-Trump DIY Popular Culture

The Art of Populism in US Politics: Pro-Trump DIY Popular Culture

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Justin Patch
September 06, 2024

The Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and artistic expressions in the US in the Trump era. Beginning with comparisons between frontier populism and millennial-era populism, the author examines how citizens imitate and improvise on political sentiments...

Brexit and the Migrant Voice EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture

Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Christine Berberich
May 27, 2024

Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and working in the UK by assessing their representation in British and European cultural productions (literature, drama, the media) and by foregrounding their attitudes, their fears, and ...

Politicised Cinema Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Politicised Cinema: Post-War Film, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

1st Edition

By Miia Huttunen
September 25, 2023

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good. Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture, a film ...

Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics

Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics

1st Edition

By Robert A. Saunders
August 01, 2022

With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir, this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series from Scandinavia and Finland, as well as the impact of such programmes on how northern Europe is viewed around the world. Drawing on a diverse set of ...

The Art of Global Power Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices

The Art of Global Power: Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices

1st Edition

Edited By Emily Merson
February 27, 2020

Artwork and popular cultures are crucial sites of contesting and transforming power relationships in world politics. The contributors to this edited collection draw on their experiences across arts, activist, and academic communities to analyze how the global politics of colonialism, capitalism, ...

Nationalism and Popular Culture

Nationalism and Popular Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Nieguth
January 31, 2020

How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly? This book argues that the power of national identity and national belonging stems, in part, from the ways in which nationalism is embedded in popular culture. Comprised of chapters covering a wide range of cases from both the ...

Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction

Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction

1st Edition

By Michael Walonen
November 28, 2019

We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant ...

The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism

The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism

1st Edition

Edited By Nathan Farrell
August 06, 2019

This edited collection brings together scholarly works of both a theoretical and empirical nature to critically analyse the forms and functions of the contemporary celebrity activist and to examine how these intersect with the political economic structures in which celebrity activists operate. ...

Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought Narratives of World Politics

Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics

1st Edition

By Adam Stock
October 15, 2018

Over the past few years, ‘dystopia’ has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural value in representing fears and anxieties about ...

Sexing War/Policing Gender Motherhood, myth and women’s political violence

Sexing War/Policing Gender: Motherhood, myth and women’s political violence

1st Edition

By Linda Åhäll
October 26, 2017

Historically, there has been reluctance, from mainstream IR scholars as well as feminists, to seriously engage with women’s agency in warfare. Instead, scholarship has tended to focus on women’s activism for peace or to ignore women’s agency altogether. This book rectifies this omission by ...

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror Sensible Interventions

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions

1st Edition

By Jenifer Chao
September 07, 2017

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that ...

The Politics of HBO’s The Wire Everything is Connected

The Politics of HBO’s The Wire: Everything is Connected

1st Edition

Edited By Shirin Deylami, Jonathan Havercroft
December 02, 2016

This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As such, it is a visual text worth investigating and exploring for its nuanced examination of power, ...

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