To seek out new worlds : [exploring links between] science fiction and world politics

This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, Science Fiction and World Politics provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense. Through Detailed Analyses Of Such Texts As 'blade Runner', 'stalker', 'star Trek', And 'buffy The Vampire Slayer', The Chapters In This Volume Examine The Complex And Sometimes Contradictory Relations Between World Politics, Both As Discipline And As Practice, And Discourses Of Science Fiction. Popular Culture, Science Fiction, And World Politics : Exploring Intertextual Relations / Jutta Weldes -- To Know Him Was To Love Him. Not To Know Him Was To Love Him From Afar: : Diplomacy In Star Trek / Iver B. Newmann -- Bumpy Space : Imperialism And Resistance In Star Trek : The Next Generation / Naeem Inayatullah -- Aliens, Alien Nations, And Alienation In American Political Economy And Popular Culture / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Demon Diasporas : Confronting The Other And The Other-worldly In Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Angel / Patricia Molloy -- Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, And The Politics Of Desire : On Stalker And Beyond / Aida A. Hozic -- Representation Is Futile? : American Anti-collectivism And The Borg / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson And Daniel H. Nexon -- The Problem Of The World And Beyond : Encountering The Other In Scinece Fiction / Geoffrey Whitehall -- Feminist Futures : Science Fiction, Utopia, And The Art Of Possibilities In World Politics / Neta C. Crawford. Edited By Jutta Weldes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, To Seek Out New Worlds provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense Front Matter....Pages i-ix Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics....Pages 1-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 “To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar”....Pages 31-52 Bumpy Space....Pages 53-75 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture....Pages 79-98 Demon Diasporas....Pages 99-121 Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, and the Politics of Desire....Pages 123-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Representation is Futile?....Pages 143-167 The Problem of the “World and Beyond”....Pages 169-193 Feminist Futures....Pages 195-220 Back Matter....Pages 221-230

Exploring connections between science fiction and world politics, experts in international studies offer detailed analyses of texts such as Stalker, Blade Runner, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Their essays uncover complex and sometimes contradictory relationships between the discipline and practice of world politics and the discourses of science fiction. Weldes (international relations, U. of Bristol) edits contributions on topics such as: imperialism and resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation; and representation is futile? American anti-collectivism and the Borg. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR