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Battlestar Galactica and International Relations (Hardcover)
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Battlestar Galactica and International Relations (Hardcover)
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
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Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG)
is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations.
A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the
importance of cultural artifacts - popular or otherwise - for the
phenomena that make up the core of our discipline. The genre of
science fiction offers the analyst an opportunity that cannot be
matched by more mimetic genres, namely the chance to look at how
sets of widely-circulating expectations of the social serve to
constrain authors as they work to introduce as yet unexplored
problematiques, the fantasy aspect in much of science fiction
storytelling is premised simply on a material difference. As such,
while the physical setting of a science fiction tale might appear
novel, its imaginative life world will likely retain many elements
of the world we already live in and which we can readily recognize
as similar to our own. For Critical IR scholarship then, BSG
presents an opportunity to examine how these purported homologies
or elements of redundancy between the fantastic and the real have
been drawn and perhaps to consider, too, whether the show can teach
us things about world politics, its various logics and structures,
which we might not otherwise be sensitive to. Tackling some of the
key contemporary issues in IR, the writers of BSG have taken on a
range of important political themes and issues, including the
legitimacy of military government, the tactical utility of
genocide, and even the philosophical implications of artificial
intelligence technologies for the very category of what it means to
be 'human'. The contributors in this book explore in depth the
argument that one of the most important aspects of popular culture
is to naturalize or normalise a certain social order by further
entrenching the expectations of social behaviour upon which our
mentalities of rule are founded. This work will be of interest to
student and scholars of international relations, popular culture
and security studies.
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