Journal article
Horror, Apocalypse and World Politics
International Affairs, Vol.96(3), pp.631-648
2020
Abstract
World politics generates a long list of anxiety inspiring scenarios that threaten to unravel everyday life with sudden and violent destruction. From total war and the concentration camps, through nuclear firestorms, global pandemics, and climate disaster, the diabolical violence of the recent past and conceivable future is the stuff of nightmares. The challenge for both policy practitioners and researchers is to engage world politics in a way that foregrounds human consequences. In this article, we explore these difficult experiences through popular culture representations of the apocalypse, a subject of intense interest for researchers in a discipline where global destruction is a distinct possibility. However, we take a different route by exploring the apocalypse through the horror genre, the one place that human suffering is explicitly accentuated. We argue that the horror genre is at once an access point for ethical engagement with the human consequences of extreme violence and a complex terrain where dark imaginings can be politically loaded, culturally specific and ethically ambiguous.
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- Title
- Horror, Apocalypse and World Politics
- Authors
- Tim Aistrope (Author) - University of KentStefanie Fishel (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Publication details
- International Affairs, Vol.96(3), pp.631-648
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1093/ia/iiaa008
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99471008302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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