The Currency of Fantasy: Discourses of Popular Culture in International Relations

• Authors: Ningchuan Wang
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The “facts” of international politics constitute the first-order representations of political life and can be reflected in popular entertainment as second-order or fictional representations. This article demonstrates that discourses of popular culture are powerful and implicated in International Relations (IR) studies. The article makes two correlated claims: the first is that the humanist and anthropological methodology often used to analyse pop culture could also be used to analyse international issues, if appropriately contextualized; the second claim is that a nation can manifest its ‘discourse’ in international politics via its popular culture, as soft power.

Keywords

EN

Popular Culture; Discourse; International Relations; Harry Potter

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 21-33

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Ningchuan Wang

• Zhujiang College, South-China Agricultural University Baitiangang, Conghua, Guangzhou City, People’s Republic of China

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ipcj-2013-0002