Final Frontier

International Relations and Politics through Star Trek and Star Wars

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Joel R. Campbell, Gigi Gokcek, Joel R Campbell

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The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents the development of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, and discusses how their progression through time has illustrated key IR theories and concepts. As a bonus, it compares the two franchises to another recent science fiction franchise used to teach IR (Battlestar Galactica).

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-08
Mått160 x 231 x 25 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitics, Literature, & Film
Antal sidor258
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498555258

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Chap. 1 A Tool for Understanding IR: The Meaning and Magic of Science FictionChap. 2 The Force is with us: An Overview of International Relations TheoriesChap. 3 Roddenberry’s Dream: Liberalism/Neo-liberalism and Star TrekChap. 4 The Fall and Rise of Republics: Liberalism, Realism and Star WarsChap. 5 Morgenthau, Kirk and Khan: Realism/Neo-realism and Star TrekChap. 6: Aliens of the Galaxy Unite! Marxist/Radical and Constitutive Approaches in Star Wars and Star Trek Chap. 7: IR and Battlestar Galactica: From Disco Era Fantasy to Gritty Post-9/11 Reality

Ironically, science fiction narratives succeed as a tool of IR pedagogy by shifting the context for the problems and processes that undergraduates often find overwhelming from a global to a galactic scale. In The Final Frontier, Campbell and Gokcek simultaneously connect students’ lived experience to two different abstractions: the creative narratives of science fiction and the theories of global politics. Both kinds of texts are sense-making exercises, and studying the connections between the two empowers students to participate in the construction of metaphors that integrate IR theories into their own pre-existing understandings of the world.