Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures Reading the Politics of Peacebuilding from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games /

• Main Author: McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
• Subjects: Peace.; Youth-Social life and customs.; Conflict Studies.; Youth Culture.

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace. It argues that we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through examining popular culture's youth revolutionaries and their outcomes - from their digital and plastic renderings to their living embodiments in...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Reading Popular Culture for Peace: Theoretical Foundations
• Chapter 3: What We Talk About When We Talk About Youth
• Chapter 4: Reading War and Peace in Harry Potter
• Chapter 5: Harry Potter in Guantanamo: Gothic War/Peace From Bush to Obama
• Chapter 6: Reading Peace Beyond Trauma, Resistance and Hope in The Hunger Games
• Chapter 7: Youth Revolts, Neo-Liberal Memorialization, and the Contradictions of Consumable Peace
• Chapter 8: Katniss in Fallujah: War Stories, Post-War and Post-Sovereign Peace in Fan Fiction
• Chapter 9: Sanctuaries, Solidarities and Boundary Crossings: Empathetic Justice and Plural/Personal Peacebuilding in Fan Fiction
• Chapter 10: Fan Activism, Symbolic Rebellions and the Magic of Mythical Thinking
• Chapter 11: Entertaining Peace: Conclusion and Thoughts on A Research Agenda. .