The new violent cartography: geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn

by Opondo, Samson Okoth Shapiro, Michael J.

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

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203124383, 0203124383, 9781136345081, 1136345086, 9781136345098, 1136345094, 9781136345043, 1136345043, 9781138789876, 1138789879
oclc:ocn801405574
LC Classification:JC319
Dewey Decimal:320.1/2

Introduction : the new violent cartography: geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn / Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro -- pt. I. Violence, literary and narrative cartographies. Maps and the geography of violence: Farah's Maps and Conrad's Heart of darkness / Russell West-Pavlov ; Chronotopicity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Christopher E.W. Ouma ; 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. Coming home: the temporal presence of the U.S. soldier's wounded body / Brianne Gallagher ; Eater of death / Shailja Patel ; Diplomatic dissensus: a report on humanitarianism, moral community and the space of death / Sam Okoth Opondo ; Reassembling memory: Rithy Panh's S-21: the Khmer Rouge killing machine / Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim ; The grounds of the violent image in Israel's "Cast lead" operation in Gaza /Meir Wigoder ; Violent masculinities and the phallocratic aesthetics of power in Kenya / Grace A. Musila -- pt. III. Continuing violent cartographies and the redistribution of the sensible. The north west frontier of Pakistan: preoccu…

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Cartographie -- Aspect politique Cartography -- Political aspects Diplomacy Diplomatie Diskursanalyse Géographie politique Geopolitics Geopolitiek Géopolitique Gewalt international relations internationale betrekkingen Internationale Politik Kartografie Körper Künste POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizensh… POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays Political Science -- General