war, peace, and justice in panem: international relations and the hunger games trilogy

Abstract

The Hunger Games has become a pop culture phenomenon. To a greater extent than many of the other books in the young adult fiction genre, The Hunger Games series has themes relevant to the study of politics. This study explores the usefulness of The Hunger Games trilogy for teaching and learning about international relations. In particular, I examine The Hunger Games in relation to major paradigms of international relations and normative issues related to war. As a series rooted in conflict in the arena and more broadly in Panem, the trilogy raises a number of questions relevant to the study of war, peace, and justice.

Cultura popular, espacios de afinidad e interacciones juveniles en las redes sociales: implicaciones para una educación mediática crítica

“…English Language and Literature are the obvious subject choices in the curriculum Lammers, Curwood, & Magnifico, 2012;Lewkowich, 2015;Magee et al, 2013;Merga, 2014, who suggests using the series in initial teacher training; Simmons, 2012, 2016, who recommends THG for critical literacy). Dreyer (2016) explores THG's potential in international relations and related issues, such as peace, war and justice, while Hand (2015) explores its theological implications and Hackey uses it to show 'the importance of social class and geography in shaping individuals' use of health care ' (2015, p. 776). The variety of subjects that can be discussed with THG as the starting point also includes peace education (McEvoy-Levy, 2015), statistics (Caudle & Daniels, 2015), contemporary problems in adolescents (Beck, 2013;Petrone, Sarigianides, & Lewis, 2014) and ethics (Huang, 2014;Jansen, 2015;Man, 2014;Pheasant-Kelly, 2015).…”