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

Published:: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description:: xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Opondo, Samson Okoth and Shapiro, Michael J.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Violence, literary and narrative cartographies -- 1.Maps and the geography of violence: Farah's Maps and Conrad's Heart of Darkness / Russell West-Pavlov -- 2.Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun / Christopher E. W. Ouma -- 3.Beyond imaginative geographies: critique, cooptation and imagination in the aftermath of the War on Terror / Angharad Closs Stephens -- pt. II Warring bodies and bodies politic -- 4.Coming home: the temporal presence of the U.S. soldier's wounded body / Brianne Gallagher -- 5.Eater of death / Shailja Patel -- 6.Diplomatic dissensus: a report on humanitarianism, moral community and the space of death / Sam Okoth Opondo -- 7.Reassembling memory: Rithy Panh's S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine / Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim -- 8.The grounds of the violent image in Israel's "Cast Lead" Operation in Gaza / Meir Wigoder -- 9.Violent masculinities and the phallocratic aesthetics of power in Kenya / Grace A. Musila -- pt. 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 / Syed Sami Raza -- 11.Cyprus, violent cartography and the distribution of ethnic identity / Costas M. Constantinou -- 12.Dignity, memory and the future under siege: reconciliation and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa / Bhekizizwe Peterson -- 13.The international aesthetic of the Yasukuni Jinja and Yushukan Museum / Eric Ishiwata -- 14.Repartitioning the U.S.-Mexico border: cinematic thought, shock, and empathy in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil / David Toohey -- 15.A continuing violent cartography: from Guadalupe Hidalgo to contemporary border crossings / Michael J. Shapiro.

Summary:

"This edited volume will collect a number of essays which propose and examines different though related 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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9780415782845 (hardback)
0415782848 (hardback)
9780203124383 (ebk)
0203124383 (ebk)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Scott Steinhauer Libraries Collection Endowment for International Studies; 2011.

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Scott Steinhauer Libraries Collection Endowment for International Studies

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