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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's transformation from an alienating burden imposed upon the worker into the prospect for autonomy and self-creation through the struggle to integrate creativity with sociability. This transformation of work is realized through a transformation of space that, in turn, signals a connection between the critique of work and the critique of International Relations (IR). To begin to think of a possible world politics that can overcome the limiting of politics in IR may indeed require the kind of critique of work that Buffy the Vampire Slayer develops?a critique that much critical theory seems to have abandoned. Thus a critique of IR entails an analytical engagement with documents that can mediate between theoretical reflection and the lived dramas of everyday life, such as those mediations produced in popular culture.
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