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Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures: Reading the Politics of Peacebuilding from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games 1st Edition

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Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures: Reading the Politics of Peacebuilding from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games 1st Edition Siobhan Mcevoy-Levy (Auth.) Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Siobhan McEvoy-Levy (auth.)

ISBN(s): 9781137498700, 9781137498717, 1137498706, 1137498714

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 4.25 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-6844816 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Government & Politics, Society Tags: Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Youth Cultures

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Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures: Reading the Politics of Peacebuilding from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781137498700,9781137498717,1137498706,1137498714

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1137498714
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781137498717
Author: Siobhan McEvoy-Levy

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace. It argues that we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through examining popular culture’s youth revolutionaries and their outcomes – from their digital and plastic renderings to their living embodiments in local struggles for justice. The study combines insights from post-structural, post-colonial, feminist, youth studies and peace and conflict studies theories to analyze the literary themes, political uses, and cultural impacts of two hit book series – Harry Potter and The Hunger Games – tracing how these works have been transformed into visible political practices, including social justice advocacy and government propaganda in the War on Terror. Pop culture production and consumption help maintain global hierarchies of inequality and structural violence but can also connect people across divisions through fandom participation. Including chapters on fan activism, fan fiction, Guantanamo Bay detention center, youth as a discursive construct in IR, and the merchandizing and tourism opportunities connected with The Hunger Games, the book argues that through taking youth-oriented pop culture seriously, we can better understand the local, global and transnational spaces, discourses, and the relations of power, within which meanings and practices of peace are known, negotiated, encoded and obstructed.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. Theoretical and Historical Foundations

2. Reading Popular Culture for Peace: Theoretical Foundations

3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Youth

Part II. Reading Peace: Textual and Intertextual Analysis

4. Reading War and Peace in Harry Potter

5. Harry Potter in Guantanamo: Gothic War/Peace from Bush to Obama

6. Reading Peace Beyond Trauma, Resistance, and Hope in The Hunger Games

Part III. From ‘Tabloid’ Culture to Fan Culture: Consumable Peace?

7. Youth Revolts, Neoliberal Memorialization, and the Contradictions of Consumable Peace

8. Katniss in Fallujah: War Stories, Post-War, and Post-Sovereign Peace in Fan Fiction