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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Opondo, Samson Okoth.

Shapiro, Michael J.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political geography.

Cartography--Political aspects.

Cartography.

Geopolitics.

Political violence.

Diplomacy.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-87444-9

9786613715753

1-136-34509-4

1-136-34508-6

0-203-12438-3

9780203124383

OCLC:

798209467