EAN: 9781137498700

PEACE AND RESISTANCE IN YOUTH CULTURES - S MCEV...

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace. It argues that
we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through examining popular culture's youth
revolutionaries and their outcomes - from their digital and plastic renderings to their living
embodiments in local struggles for justice. The study combines insights from post-structural 
post-colonial  feminist  youth studies and peace and conflict studies theories to analyze the
literary themes  political uses  and cultural impacts of two hit book series - Harry Potter and
The Hunger Games - tracing how these works have been transformed into visible political
practices  including social justice advocacy and government propaganda in the War on Terror.
Pop culture production and consumption help maintain global hierarchies of inequality and
structural violence but can also connect people across divisions through fandom participation.
Including chapters on fan activism  fan fiction  Guantanamo Bay detention center  youth as a
discursive construct in IR  and the merchandizing and tourism opportunities connected with The
Hunger Games  the book argues that through taking youth-oriented pop culture seriously  we can
better understand the local  global and transnational spaces  discourses  and the relations of
power  within which meanings and practices of peace are known  negotiated  encoded and
obstructed.

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