Author: Susana Loza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781498507967
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era.
Speculative Imperialisms
Author: Susana Loza
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498507972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the(settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the Britain and the US. Through a close examination of District 9, Avatar, Doctor Who, Planet of the Apes, and steampunk culture, Susana Loza illuminates the durability of (settler) colonialism and how it operates through two linked yet distinct forms of racial mimicry: monsterization and minstrelsy. Speculative Imperialisms contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that such racial simulations play in a putatively postracial and post-colonial era. It brings together the work on gender masquerade, racial minstrelsy, and postcolonial mimicry and puts it in dialogue with film, media, and cultural studies. This project draws upon the theoretical insights of Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha, Edward Said, Philip Deloria, Michael Rogin, Eric Lott, Charles Mills, Falguni Sheth, Lorenzo Veracini, Adilifu Nama, Isiah Lavender III, Gwendolyn Foster, Marianna Torgovnick, Ann Laura Stoler, Anne McClintock, Eric Greene, Richard Dyer, and Ed Guerrero.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498507972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the(settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the Britain and the US. Through a close examination of District 9, Avatar, Doctor Who, Planet of the Apes, and steampunk culture, Susana Loza illuminates the durability of (settler) colonialism and how it operates through two linked yet distinct forms of racial mimicry: monsterization and minstrelsy. Speculative Imperialisms contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that such racial simulations play in a putatively postracial and post-colonial era. It brings together the work on gender masquerade, racial minstrelsy, and postcolonial mimicry and puts it in dialogue with film, media, and cultural studies. This project draws upon the theoretical insights of Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha, Edward Said, Philip Deloria, Michael Rogin, Eric Lott, Charles Mills, Falguni Sheth, Lorenzo Veracini, Adilifu Nama, Isiah Lavender III, Gwendolyn Foster, Marianna Torgovnick, Ann Laura Stoler, Anne McClintock, Eric Greene, Richard Dyer, and Ed Guerrero.
Speculative Imperialisms
Author: Susana Loza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781498507967
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781498507967
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era.
American Imperialism
Author: Ernest R. May
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
We See a Different Frontier: A postcolonial speculative fiction anthology
Author: Djibril al-Ayad
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0957397526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This anthology of speculative fiction stories on the themes of colonialism and cultural imperialism focuses on the viewpoints of the colonized. Sixteen authors share their experiences of being the silent voices in history and on the wrong side of the final frontier; their fantasies of a reality in which straight, cis, able-bodied, rich, anglophone, white males don't tell us how they won every war; and their revenge against the alien oppressor settling their "new world."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0957397526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This anthology of speculative fiction stories on the themes of colonialism and cultural imperialism focuses on the viewpoints of the colonized. Sixteen authors share their experiences of being the silent voices in history and on the wrong side of the final frontier; their fantasies of a reality in which straight, cis, able-bodied, rich, anglophone, white males don't tell us how they won every war; and their revenge against the alien oppressor settling their "new world."
The Imperial Republic
Author: Gerald White Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780871405425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Will the United States of America go the way of Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt--those empires which collapsed and are known to us only through the history books?
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780871405425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Will the United States of America go the way of Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt--those empires which collapsed and are known to us only through the history books?
Political Future Fiction: Fictions of a feminist future
Author: Kate Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Political Future Fiction
The Domestic Origins of Imperialism
Author: Miles Kahler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imperialism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imperialism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Life as Surplus
Author: Melinda E. Cooper
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295990317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295990317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.
Imperialism and Social Classes
Author: Joseph A. Schumpeter
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016430X
Category : Imperialism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining many historical episodes. His account of the foreign policy of Imperial Rome reads like a critique of the US today. The second essay examines class mobility and political dynamics within a capitalistic society. Overall, a very important contribution to the literature of political economy.
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016430X
Category : Imperialism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining many historical episodes. His account of the foreign policy of Imperial Rome reads like a critique of the US today. The second essay examines class mobility and political dynamics within a capitalistic society. Overall, a very important contribution to the literature of political economy.