The new violent cartography : geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn / / edited by Samson Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825127303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-87444-9; 9786613715753; 1-136-34509-4; 1-136-34508-6; 0-203-12438-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Interventions
• Classificazione: POL000000POL003000POL011000
• Altri autori (Persone): OpondoSamson Okoth; ShapiroMichael J
• Disciplina: 320.1/2
• Soggetti: Political geography; Cartography - Political aspects; Geopolitics; Political violence; Diplomacy; International relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--