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Popular Geopolitics

Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline
Series: Routledge Geopolitics Series
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Popular Geopolitics brings together scholars from various academic disciplines to explore the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It offers an archaeology of the field, mapping the flow of analytical frameworks and charting a future course. The book emphasises the real-world impact of popular culture, focusing on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics and its connections with media, cultural, and gender studies.
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Popular Geopolitics brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics.

It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline.

The book explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.

Series: Routledge Geopolitics Series

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  • Popular Geopolitics
    Popular Geopolitics brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. The book explores the real-world implications of popular...
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ISBN: 9780815384038

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 7 Tables, black and white; 15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Vlad Strukov
  • Edited by Robert A. Saunders

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 720g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature Series: Routledge Geopolitics Series

About the Author

Robert A. Saunders is Professor in History, Politics, and Geography at Farmingdale State College, a campus of the State University of New York (SUNY). His research explores the impact of popular culture and mass media on geopolitics, nationalism, and religious identity. His scholarship has appeared in Progress in Human Geography, Europe-Asia Studies, Slavic Review, Nations and Nationalism, and Geopolitics, among other journals. He is the author of four books, the most recent being Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm (2017). He is also curator of the ‘Popular Culture and IR’ blog at E-International Relations.

Vlad Strukov is Associate Professor in Film and Digital Culture at the University of Leeds, specialising in world cinemas, visual culture, digital media, intermediality, and cultural theory. He explores theories of empire and nationhood, global journalism and grassroots media, and consumption and celebrity by considering the Russian Federation and the Russian-speaking world as his case study. He is the founding and principal editor of the journal Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (www.digitalicons.org). He is the author of Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era (2016), and other publications on film.

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