Peace And Resistance In Youth Cultures: Reading The Politics Of Peacebuilding From Harry Potter To The Hunger Games (rethinking Peace And Conflict Studies)
by Siobhan McEvoy-Levy /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book offers a rationale for and ways of
This book offers a rationale for and ways ofreading
popular
reading
popularculture
culturefor
forpeace
peace. It argues
that we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through
examining popular culture’s youth revolutionaries and their
outcomes - from their digital and plastic renderings to their
living embodiments in local struggles for justice. The study
combines insights from post-structural, post-colonial, feminist,
youth studies and peace and conflict studies theories to analyze
the literary themes, political uses, and cultural impacts of two
hit book series –
. It argues
that we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through
examining popular culture’s youth revolutionaries and their
outcomes - from their digital and plastic renderings to their
living embodiments in local struggles for justice. The study
combines insights from post-structural, post-colonial, feminist,
youth studies and peace and conflict studies theories to analyze
the literary themes, political uses, and cultural impacts of two
hit book series –Harry Potter
Harry Potter and
andThe Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
– tracing how these works have been transformed into visible
political practices, including social justice advocacy and
government propaganda in the War on Terror. Pop culture
production and consumption help maintain global hierarchies of
inequality and structural violence but can also connect people
across divisions through fandom participation. Including chapters
on fan activism, fan fiction, Guantanamo Bay detention center,
youth as a discursive construct in IR, and the merchandizing and
tourism opportunities connected with
– tracing how these works have been transformed into visible
political practices, including social justice advocacy and
government propaganda in the War on Terror. Pop culture
production and consumption help maintain global hierarchies of
inequality and structural violence but can also connect people
across divisions through fandom participation. Including chapters
on fan activism, fan fiction, Guantanamo Bay detention center,
youth as a discursive construct in IR, and the merchandizing and
tourism opportunities connected withThe Hunger Games
The Hunger Games, the
book argues that through taking youth-oriented pop culture
seriously, we can better understand the local, global and
transnational spaces, discourses, and the relations of power,
within which meanings and practices of peace are known,
negotiated, encoded and obstructed.
, the
book argues that through taking youth-oriented pop culture
seriously, we can better understand the local, global and
transnational spaces, discourses, and the relations of power,
within which meanings and practices of peace are known,
negotiated, encoded and obstructed.