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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics
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World Politics in Outer Space
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Future Worlds, Alternative Imaginings
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Back Matter
About the authors
JUTTA WELDES is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minnesota, 1999) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999). She has published Going Cultural: Star Trek, State Action, and Popular Culture (Millennium, 1999) and Globalization is Science Fiction (Millennium, 2001), as well as other articles and book chapters on international relations theory and US foreign policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: To Seek Out New Worlds
Book Subtitle: Science Fiction and World Politics
Editors: Jutta Weldes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982087
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jutta Weldes 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6058-0Published: 12 May 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8208-7Published: 01 May 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 230
Topics: Screen Studies, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Twentieth-Century Literature, International Relations, Regional and Cultural Studies