The New Violent Cartography (eBook, ePUB)

Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn
Redaktion: Opondo, Samson; Shapiro, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume will collect a number of essays which propose and examines 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136345081
• Artikelnr.: 38253137

Autorenporträt

Sam Okoth Opondo is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa where he is writing a doctoral dissertation on Black Diplomacies: Colonialism, Race and the Poetics of Mediating African Estrangement. Most broadly, his research interest lies in the study of estrangement, politics of aesthetics and cultural translation in colonial and postcolonial societies. Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Among his publications are Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (2004), Deforming American Political Though: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre (2006) and Cinematic Geopolitics (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : The New Violent Cartography: Geo-analysis After the
Aesthetic Turn Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro Part 1: Violence,
Literary and Narrative Cartographies 1. Maps and the Geography of Violence:
Farah's Maps and Conrad's Heart of Darkness Russell West-Pavlov 2.
Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
Christopher Ouma 3. Beyond Imaginary Geographies: Critique, Cooptation and
Imagination in the Aftermath of The War On Terror Angharad Closs Stephens
Part 2: Warring Bodies and Bodies Politic 4. Mapping the Politics of
Trauma: The U.S. Injured-Soldier Body in Annie Proulx's "Tits-Up in a
Ditch" Brianne Gallagher 5 . Eater of Death Shailja Patel 6 . Diplomatic
Dissensus : A Report on Humanitarianism and the Body in Pain Sam Okoth
Opondo 7. Reassembling Memory: Rithy Panh's S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing
Machine Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim 8. The Triad of Vision and the Grounds of the
Violent Photographic Image in Israel's "Cast Lead" Operation in Gaza Meir
Wigoder 9. Violent Masculinities and the Phallocratic Aesthetics of Power
in Kenya Grace Musila Part 3: Continuing Violent Cartographies and the
Redistribution of the Sensible 10. The North West Frontier of Pakistan:
Preoccupation with "Unveiling" the Battlefield and "Violent Cartography"
Syed Sami Raza 11. Cyprus, Violent Cartography and the Distribution of
Ethnic Identity Costas M. Constantinou 12. Dignity, Memory, Truth and the
Future Under Siege: Reconciliation and Nation Building in Post-Apartheid
South Africa Bhekizizwe Peterson 13. The International Aesthetic of the
Yasukuni Jinja and Yûshûkan Museum Geoffrey Whitehall and Eric Ishiwata
14. Repartitioning the U.S.-Mexico Border: Cinematic Thought, Shock, and
Empathy in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil David Toohey 15 . A Continuing
Violent Cartography: From Guadalupe Hidalgo to Contemporary Border
Crossings Michael J. Shapiro