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9781403960580

To Seek Out New Worlds Exploring Links between Science Fiction and World Politics

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    9781403960580

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    1403960585

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-05-02
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, To Seek Out New Worlds provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.

Author Biography

Jutta Weldes is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Constructing National Interests: The US and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics: Exploring Intertextual Relations
1(30)
Jutta Weldes
PART I WORLD POLITICS IN OUTER SPACE
``To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar'': Diplomacy in Star Trek
31(22)
Iver B. Neumann
Bumpy Space: Imperialism and Resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation
53(26)
Naeem Inayatullah
PART II ALIENS AMONG US
Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture
79(20)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other-Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
99(24)
Patricia Molloy
Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, and the Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond
123(20)
Aida A. Hozic
PART III FUTURE WORLDS, ALTERNATIVE IMAGININGS
Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg
143(26)
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Daniel H. Nexon
The Problem of the ``World and Beyond'': Encountering ``the Other'' in Science Fiction
169(26)
Geoffrey Whitehall
Feminist Futures: Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Art of Possibilities in World Politics
195(26)
Neta C. Crawford
Contributors 221(2)
Index 223

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