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UNINA9910453154003321 |
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Titolo |
The new violent cartography : geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn / / edited by Samson Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-87444-9 |
9786613715753 |
1-136-34509-4 |
1-136-34508-6 |
0-203-12438-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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OpondoSamson Okoth |
ShapiroMichael J |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political geography |
Cartography - Political aspects |
Geopolitics |
Political violence |
Diplomacy |
International relations |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; The New Violent Cartography; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The new violent cartography: geo-after the aesthetic turn; Part I: Violence, literary and narrative cartographies; 1. Maps and the geography of violence: Farah's Maps and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 2. Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; 3. Beyond imaginative geographies: Critique, cooptation and imagination in the aftermath of the War on Terror; Part II: Warring bodies and bodies politic; 4. Coming home: The temporal presence of the U.S. soldier's wounded body |
5. Eater of death6. Diplomatic dissensus: A report on humanitarianism, |
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moral community and the space of death; 7. Reassembling memory: Rithy Panh's S-The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine; 8. The grounds of the violent image in Israel's "Cast Lead" Operation in Gaza; 9. Violent masculinities and the phallocratic aesthetics of power in Kenya; Part III:Continuing violent cartographies and the redistribution of the sensible; 10. The North West Frontier of Pakistan: Preoccupation with "unveiling" the battlefield and the continuing violent cartographies |
11. Cyprus, violent cartography and the distribution of ethnic identity12. Dignity, memory and the future under siege: Reconciliation and nation-in post-South Africa; 13. The international aesthetic of the Yasukuni Jinja and Yûshûkan Museum; 14. Repartitioning the U.S.-Mexico border: Cinematic thought, shock, and empathy in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil; 15. A continuing violent cartography: From Guadalupe Hidalgo to contemporary border crossings; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This edited volume will collect a number of essays which propose and examines different though crelated critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the political and draw on a broad range of cultural contexts and genres of expressions to provoke the thinking that exceeds the conventional stories and practices of international relations"-- |
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