Thinking About the Role of Popular Culture in International Conflicts

Press‐Barnathan, Galia

doi:10.1093/isr/viw030

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“…Peace studies is currently engrossed in a burgeoning ‘cultural turn’ which seeks to explore the political work that popular culture does in variegated post-war contexts (Bräuchler, 2018; McEvoy-Levy, 2018; Press-Barnathan, 2017). For example, McEvoy-Levy (2018) focuses directly on popular culture and its relationship to peace and peacebuilding.…”

Section: Popular Culture Peacebuilding and Audience Studiesmentioning

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“…Ultimately, the author is interested in exploring how ‘peacebuilding [is] rooted in popular culture’ (2018: 376). Likewise, Press-Barnathan (2017) unpacks the potential of popular culture in challenging violent conflicts and facilitating transitions to peace. Due to its unique characteristics of being able to convey information and generate/shape the emotions of a large number of people, the author argues that popular culture ‘is likely to play a role in shaping and changing societal attitudes towards the conflict’ (Press-Barnathan, 2017: 167).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Brits and the occasional diasporic community’ (Gray, 2017: 82) commonly occupying centre-stage. Meanwhile in peace studies, scholars are beginning to unpack the relationship between popular culture and the post-war politics of peacebuilding (Bräuchler, 2018; McEvoy-Levy, 2018; Press-Barnathan, 2017). Underpinning this research programme is an assumption that popular culture may inspire a politics of peace in post-war settings.…”

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Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene

Lundqvist

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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The article explores the burgeoning Nepalese hip-hop scene – commonly known as nep-hop – as a discursive intervention in the post-war politics of Nepal. Its core argument is that nep-hop oftentimes demonstrates an ethos of peacebuilding through popular culture. Indeed, many songs explicitly criticize violence, war, and the political leaders who recently brought the nation to a civil war. Yet, this political critique appears to often fall on deaf ears, due to the fact that nep-hop is commonly decoded as a radically ‘alien’ and ‘vulgar’ genre by audiences in mainstream Nepalese society. Importantly, however, this should not be read as a rejection of the ideological content of nep-hop, but rather as a negative evaluation of the aesthetic form of the genre, which bars many Nepalese citizens from engaging with its political messages in a meaningful manner.

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Lundqvist

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…91 Movies may thus help to sustain protracted conflicts by strengthening self-other dichotomies and identities by providing (selective) information about societies and conflicts, through the use of emotions, (gendered) stereotypes, and narratives. 92 Hence, they constitute potentially very influential forms of banal nationalism 93 that may reach an audience of millions.…”

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“…An example could be The Hunt for Red October as a transitional movie at the end of the Cold War; as such, movies can be vehicles of reconciliation, which draw on strategies like personalization in order to present the other as real human beings (the "Romeo-and-Juliet plot"). 96 Ch erie Rivers argues that films may provide a resource to generate agency and help local communities to go beyond what she terms victimology. 97 In the case of peacebuilding in the Congo, participation in the Salaam Kivu International Film Festival (SKIFF) may provide a window onto a community whose engagement with cinema is transforming individuals into agents of social change.…”

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Visualizing Peace – The State of the Art

Engelkamp¹,

Roepstorff²,

Spencer³

2020

Peace & Change

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While the importance of visualization of war, conflict, and violence has gathered great momentum in disciplines such as International Relations (IR), far less has been said about the visualization of peace in IR, history, and even in Peace and Conflict Studies. 1 As Maria Elena D ıez Jorge and Francisco Muñoz Muñoz point out, "[v]iolence has received the attention, while peace and its entire semantic sphere have been left out of the spotlight". 2 It is this relative blind spot that this special issue wants to address as it aims to reflect on the politics, policy, and pedagogy of visualizing peace. Among other questions, it will reflect on how peace is visualized in cultural artifacts and what these representations of peace (and their absence) do politically. In other words, what is presented in the picture of peace and what is left out? What consequences can this have for the construction of politics? In addition, the special issue considers how visual artifacts can contribute to real-world peace after violent conflict. How can visualization in film, photography, or documentaries help build peace and contribute to conflict resolution, reconciliation, transitional justice, and peace pedagogy? If we accept the argument of the cultural turn and believe in the co-constitution of culture and politics and in the idea that cultural artifacts such as movies take part in the construction of a dichotomous understanding of self and other, thereby contributing to the legitimation of violence and conflict, then this may also work the other way around: Cultural artifacts like movies can play an important role in peace processes.When considering the visualization of peace, one must start with the conceptualization of "peace" itself. The concept and its meaning

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A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power

Ziv

2024

Politics and Religion

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The study of religion and international relations has achieved renewed attention in the last two decades. This study investigates a specific aspect of this field: religious soft power. It focuses on individuals who were affected by religious soft power and develop a typology of courses of action these individuals can take vis-à-vis their home state. I argue that individuals can take three different types of actions: disruptive, reformative, and transnational. Using the cases of the Catholic Church and its followers, ISIS and Sunni believers, and the relations between Israel and the Evangelicals, I assess how these alternative actions are being manifested by different groups of individuals. Lastly, I offer an answer to the question of when individuals would use disruptive action and when will they use reformative one.

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Thinking About the Role of Popular Culture in International Conflicts

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene

Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene

Visualizing Peace – The State of the Art

A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power

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