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175324
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In this paper, we take the emergence of the Her Majesty’s Armed Forces toy range in 2009 as a starting point for thinking through the domestication of geopolitics through practices of play. Empirically, the paper draws upon substantive, innovative and original research undertaken with children in their homes, via a series of play ethnographies; conceptually, the paper draws upon the notion of ‘domestication’ and argues that ideas from these literatures might be usefully adopted as a means of reconfiguring popular geopolitics. In so doing, we argue not only that toys, games and play warrant much greater attention as forms of popular geopolitics, but also that the idea of domestication has much to offer wider conceptions and framings around popular geopolitics itself. The paper thus advances claims for a significant reformulation of popular geopolitics as an encounter between texts, objects, bodies and practices. More specifically, the rich ambiguity of the observed practices emerging from our play-centred ethnographic approach speaks clearly to the need to avoid prioritising the public over the private, cultural producers over audience, and the discursive over the affective in our theorisations of domestication. While we should be attentive to the highly orchestrated practices of anticipating domesticity and the multiple sites of geographical production assembled though these practices, we should not ignore the excess inherent within the incomplete, experimental process of domestication.
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191445
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Bringing together literatures on play, (video) games, and alter(native) geopolitics this paper explores how digital games offer playful encounters that challenge popular understandings of geopolitics. While geographical scholarship has exposed the ways video games promote geopolitical and militaristic cultures, this paper concentrates on the disruptive qualities of play. More specifically, the paper focuses on This War of Mine (2014), a game which fosters playful encounters that encourage the player to reflect on the everyday consequences of conflict in urban spaces and their civilian populations. Drawing on an analysis of player reviews of the game, this paper demonstrates how play shapes imaginaries of the geopolitical context(s) of urban conflict and stimulates players to reflect on their attitudes towards violence. In doing so, the paper critically demonstrates how digital games offer important cultural outlets in encountering alternative understandings of geopolitics.
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151832
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Treating popular geopolitics as an interdisciplinary environment, this essay interrogates the viability of employing popular geopolitics as a tool for understanding the relationship between the popular and the political on the international stage as it relates to the Russian Federation. Using several representative artefacts of pop-culture and their reception, we attempt to demonstrate that a powerful trans-regional feedback loop has been established, wherein Russian and ‘Western’ currents feed into and off of each other. These flows sustain older geopolitical codes and frames, while steadily developing new patterns and dimensions of exchange that ‘explain’ variations triggered by the vagaries of globalisation.
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151824
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Popular geopolitics refers to a subfield of Human Geography concerned with peoples’ perceptions of different parts of the world and how those perceptions are (re)produced in popular culture. It addresses how certain representations of international politics are embedded and promulgated in mass media, including cartoons, comics, movies, video games, newspapers and magazines. Audience engagements with geopolitical narratives in the media are part of this focus of study.
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117643
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2012.
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Chinese diplomacy, aid, economic interactions and manifestations of soft
power have increased the country's influence in the South Pacific region. By some
accounts, China's influence is already approaching that of traditional stakeholders
Australia and New Zealand. In Africa and other regions state-led and private activities
in established powers' perceived spheres of influence has caused concern and
inspired particular narratives about China's motivations. In this article we examine
how media discourses in Australia and New Zealand have represented China's role in
the South Pacific. We find that China's role has been constructed using multiple
negative frames, which seek to establish China as unequivocally 'different'. More
than being unencumbered by the constraints of public opinion and a free press, China
is portrayed as operating in a different moral universe, in which the cold hearted
exploitation of vulnerable island nations (often in cahoots with venal island elites) is
entirely normal. The article shows how such constructions reveal some of the
complex issues involved in Australia and New Zealand's relationships both with
China and other South Pacific nations.
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111642
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This paper, while acknowledging the import of popular geopolitics for understanding how foreign policies are interpreted in an everyday sense, argues that this literature has glossed over a set of key oppositional cultural formats, such as documentary films, satirical newspapers, and non-fiction comic books (referred to here as graphic narratives), which also influence the geopolitical imaginations of their consumers. Using Ó Tuathail's concept of the anti-geopolitical eye, the paper considers how popular geopolitical understandings are constructed, arguing that these oppositional formats, and graphic narratives in particular, challenge hegemonic scriptings of geopolitics through a bricolage of narrative techniques. Discussing the work of comics journalist Joe Sacco and his graphic narrative "Chechen War, Chechen Women" in detail, the paper considers how three distinct narrative techniques he employs - historical interlude, the singular panel, and the depiction of the banal - make possible a counter-hegemonic reading of the individual, localised consequences of the Chechen conflicts.
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