Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

List of contents

1. Introduction 2.Critical Humanism: Theory, Methodology, and Battlestar Galactica 3.Religion in Sort of a Global Sense’: The Relevance of Religious Practices for Political Community in Battlestar Galactica and Beyond 4.Narrating identity, techno-rational subsumption and micropolitics in International Relations and Battlestar Galactica 5.Machines that Matter: The Politics and Ethics of ‘Unnatural’ Bodies 6. Critical Reflections on Battlestar Galactica and the Hyperreal Genocide 7. So Say Who All? Cosmopolitanism, Hybridity, and Colonialism in the Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica 8.Security or Human Security? Civil-Military Relations in Battlestar Galactica. 9. Cylons in Baghdad: Experiencing Counter-Insurgency in Battlestar Galactica 10.Seeing Others: Battlestar Galactica’s Portrayal of Insurgents at a Time of War 11. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Neumann Kiersey
• Assisted by: Nicholas Kiersey (Editor), Nicholas J. Kiersey (Editor), Kiersey Nicholas (Editor), Kiersey Nicholas J. (Editor), Iver Neumann (Editor), Iver B. Neumann (Editor), Neumann Iver B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9781138796393
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79639-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, International Relations, Humanities, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society