Peace and resistance in youth cultures: reading the politics of peacebuilding from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
In: Rethinking peace and conflict studies
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter Summaries -- References -- Part I: Theoretical and Historical Foundations -- Chapter 2: Reading Popular Culture for Peace: Theoretical Foundations -- Why Read Popular Culture for Peace? -- Identifying and Resisting the 'Commonsensical' Narratives and 'Self-Fulfilling Prophecies' of Violence in World Politics -- Understanding the Domestic Pop-Cultural Contexts of Liberal Peacebuilding/Militarism -- Identifying and Supporting Cultural Sources of Positive Peace and Resistance -- Youth in the House -- Ecological Systems, Lifeworlds, and Everyday Peacebuilding -- Exploring Peace in Pop Culture: A Framework for Analysis -- Discipline, Struggle, and Hidden Resistance -- Bridging Differences Toward New Consciousness -- Pop Culture/Peacebuilding: Blurred Boundaries -- References -- Chapter 3: What We Talk About When We Talk About Youth -- Talking About Youth: Fears and Desires of War/Peace -- The Child as an Image: Idealist and Normative Peace -- Wildness, Innocence, and Signs -- Reforming and Saving -- Liberal Peace and Gothic Wars -- Gender, Race, Class, and Estrangement -- Gothic Girls and Resistance -- Boundaries and Revolt: Youth Containment and a Search for Structural Peace -- Apprenticeship and Insurrection -- Martial Civic Peace -- (Military) Discipline -- Parenting, Policing, Politicizing, Pacifying -- Progress and Existential Threat: Realist Peace and Human Rights -- Resistance: From 'Rugged and Ready' to 'Peace and Love' -- Neocolonial, Neoliberal Peace -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Reading Peace: Textual and Intertextual Analysis -- Chapter 4: Reading War and Peace in Harry Potter -- Harry Potter's Just Wars2 -- Harry's Gendered and Relational Peace -- Conclusion -- References
