Format:
xii, 292 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0415782848
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9780203124383
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0203124383
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9780415782845
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9781136345098
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9781280874444
Series Statement:
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
This edited volume seeks to propose and examine different, though related, critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the political and draw on a broad range of cultural contexts and genres of expressions to provoke the thinking that exceeds the conventional stories and practices of international relations. In contrast to a macropolitical focus on state policy and inter-state hostilities, the contributors to this volume treat the micropolitics of violence and dissensus that
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; The New Violent Cartography; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The new violent cartography: geo-after the aesthetic turn; Part I: Violence, literary and narrative cartographies; 1. Maps and the geography of violence: Farah's Maps and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 2. Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; 3. Beyond imaginative geographies: Critique, cooptation and imagination in the aftermath of the War on Terror; Part II: Warring bodies and bodies politic; 4. Coming home: The temporal presence of the U.S. soldier's wounded body
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5. Eater of death6. Diplomatic dissensus: A report on humanitarianism, moral community and the space of death; 7. Reassembling memory: Rithy Panh's S-The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine; 8. The grounds of the violent image in Israel's "Cast Lead" Operation in Gaza; 9. Violent masculinities and the phallocratic aesthetics of power in Kenya; Part III:Continuing violent cartographies and the redistribution of the sensible; 10. The North West Frontier of Pakistan: Preoccupation with "unveiling" the battlefield and the continuing violent cartographies
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11. Cyprus, violent cartography and the distribution of ethnic identity12. Dignity, memory and the future under siege: Reconciliation and nation-in post-South Africa; 13. The international aesthetic of the Yasukuni Jinja and Yûshûkan Museum; 14. Repartitioning the U.S.-Mexico border: Cinematic thought, shock, and empathy in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil; 15. A continuing violent cartography: From Guadalupe Hidalgo to contemporary border crossings; Index
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Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280874171
Additional Edition:
Print version The New Violent Cartography : Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
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