Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity [Paperback]

Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this innovative and engaging text surveys the field of popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international relations from a geographical perspective. Jason Dittmer and Daniel Bos connect global issues with the questions of identity and subjectivity that we feel as individuals, arguing that who we think we are influences how we understand the world.



Building on the strengths of the first edition, each chapter focuses on a specific themesuch as representation, audience, and affectby explaining the concept and then outlining some of the emerging debates that have revolved around it. New and updated case studiesincluding heritage and social mediahelp illustrate the significance of the concepts and capture the ways popular culture shapes our understandings of geopolitics within everyday life. Students will enjoy the text's accessibility and colorful examples, and instructors will appreciate the way the book brings together a diverse, multidisciplinary literature and makes it understandable and relevant.

Jason Dittmer is professor of political geography at University College London.

Daniel Bos is departmental lecturer in human geography at the University of Oxford.

This book could inform media research on pop culture in relation to political geography. Communication Booknotes Quarterly

Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity is back! This time there is a dynamic duoDittmer and Bos. The new edition preserves the accessible and engaging style of the first edition but takes the reader on an updated tour of this exciting interdisciplinary field. Highly recommended. Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway University of London; author of Border Wars

Jason Dittmers original work has been greatly enhanced by the contributions of Daniel Bos, producing an up-to-date, insightful, and provocative text that reflects the increasing and now undeniable lƒ.