Battlestar Galactica and international relations / edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann.
"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 technolog...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Popular culture and world politics
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 222 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: circulating on board the Battlestar
- Critical humanism: theory, methodology, and Battlestar Galactica
- Religion in sort of a global sense: the relevance of religious practices for political community in Battlestar Galactica and beyond
- Narrating identity, techno-rational subsumption and micropolitics in international relations and Battlestar Galactica
- Machines that matter: the politics and ethics of "unnatural" bodies
- Critical reflections on Battlestar Galactica and the hyperreal genocide
- So say who all? cosmopolitanism, hybridity, and colonialism in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
- Security or human security? civil-military relations in Battlestar Galactica
- Cylons in Baghdad: experiencing counter-insurgency in Battlestar Galactica
- Seeing others: Battlestar Galactica's portrayal of insurgents at a time of war
- Conclusion.