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  • Tabloid Terror

    War, Culture, and Geopolitics

    by Francois Debrix ...
    This book analyzes the methods, effects, and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelationships of national identity formation, corporate ‘news and opinion’ dissemination, and the quasi-academic apparatus of war justification - focusing on the Bush administration's exploitation of the fear and insecurity caused by 9/11 and how this has ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Beyond Biopolitics

    Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics

    by Francois Debrix, Alexander Barder ...
    Series series Interventions
    'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93.Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era.This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Global Powers of Horror

    Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces

    by Francois Debrix ...
    Series series Interventions
    Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror’s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror’s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World

    by Francois Debrix ...
    Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

    by Amin Alhassan, Heidi Marie Brush, François Debrix, John D. H. Downing, John Nguyet Erni, Michael Robert Evans, Marouf Hasian Jr., Clifford A. Jones, Marwan M. Kraidy, John Nerone, Rick Rockwell, S Sayyid, Sujatha Sosale, McKenzie Wark ...
    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    New Frontiers in International Communication Theory offers a wide-ranging assessment of the present state of the field of international communication and charts new directions for theory and research. It brings together renowned and emerging scholars who challenge the field to move beyond the limits of existing formulations, approaches, and trajectories, providing an alternative and a supplement ... Read more

    $66.19 CAD

  • The Geopolitics of American Insecurity

    Terror, Power and Foreign Policy

    Edited by Francois Debrix, Mark Lacy ...
    Series series PRIO New Security Studies
    This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony America has devised as a response to these new security threats.The essays explore three primary areas. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Necrogeopolitics

    On Death and Death-Making in International Relations

    Edited by Caroline Alphin, François Debrix ...
    Series series Interventions
    Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations brings together a diverse array of critical IR scholars, political theorists, critical security studies researchers, and critical geographers to provide a series of interventions on the topic of death and death-making in global politics.Contrary to most existing scholarship, this volume does not place the emphasis on ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
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  • The Violence of Organized Forgetting

    Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is ... Read more

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  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us ... Read more

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  • America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth

    Reform Beyond Electoral Politics

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Americas latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as “four fundamentalisms”: market deregulation, ... Read more

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