Drawing Fear of Difference: Race, Gender, and National Identity in Ms. Marvel Comics

Feminist scholars have provided important analyses of the gendered and racialised discourses used to justify the Global War on Terror. They show how post-9/11 policies were made possible through particular binary constructions of race, gender, and national identity in official discourse. Turning to popular culture, this article uses a Queer feminist poststructuralist approach to look at the ways that Ms. Marvel comics destabilise and contest those racialised and gendered discourses. Specifically, it explores how Ms. Marvel provides a reading of race, gender, and national identity in post-9/11 USA that challenges gendered-racialised stereotypes. Providing a Queer reading of Ms. Marvel that undermines the coherence of Self/Other binaries, the article concludes that to write, draw, and circulate comics and the politics they depict is a way of intervening in international relations that imbues comics with the power to engage in dialogue with and (re)shape systems of racialised-gendered domination and counter discriminatory legislation. Dibujando miedo a la diferencia: raza, género e identidad nacional en Ms. Marvel Comics

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Conclusion

Worse Than a Monolith ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691142609.003.0008 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas J. Christensen

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Burden Sharing ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Coercive Diplomacy ◽

Conflict Escalation ◽

Coordination Problems ◽

Alliance Politics ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Global War

This chapter reviews the historical and theoretical lessons highlighted by the book. It shows how disorganization and discord in alliance politics has made the maintenance of peace through coercive diplomacy in Asia very difficult. It considers two separate sets of dynamics among enemy alliances that carry theoretically important lessons for the study of international relations. The first set of dynamics relate to alliance coordination, problems of burden-sharing within an alliance, and unclear signaling in an alliance's coercive diplomacy. The second set of dynamics involves potentially differential levels of devotion to specific revisionist conflicts. The chapter concludes with a discussion of other cases of alliance disunity and conflict escalation to which the theoretical approaches offered here might apply, including pan-Arabism and the Six Day War of 1967, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the global war on terror.

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Introducing the International Theory of Carl Schmitt: International Law, International Relations, and the Present Global Predicament(s)

Leiden Journal of International Law ◽

10.1017/s0922156505003158 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

LOUIZA ODYSSEOS ◽

FABIO PETITO

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

International Law ◽

War On Terror ◽

Carl Schmitt ◽

Special Focus ◽

Multidisciplinary Research ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

International Theory ◽

Research Platform ◽

Global War

In this piece we introduce and contextualize the contributions to the special focus on the international theory of Carl Schmitt, and argue that Carl Schmitt's much neglected international thought can provide scholars of both international relations and international law with a new common multidisciplinary research platform pivotal in thinking about the present international predicaments of crisis in international order and legitimacy, of contested liberal hegemony, and of the issue of unipolarity and the emergence of new forms of warfare, such as terrorism and the ‘global war on terror’.

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The (Arrested) Development of UK Special Forces and the Global War on Terror

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210509990398 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 971-982 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ALASTAIR FINLAN

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Use Of Force ◽

Special Forces ◽

The West ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

State Action ◽

Global War ◽

Peace And War ◽

Military Units

AbstractThe use of force in international relations by the West is increasingly witnessing a greater reliance on Special Forces. This trend has profound implications for state action because Special Forces represent a very different kind of soldier and they possess the inherent ability to transgress traditional boundaries in peace and war. The development and participation of UK Special Forces in the Global War on Terror provides a microcosm of the positive and negative dimensions of using secret military units as the force of choice against insurgents and terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq and indeed on the streets of London.

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Drone Vision

Surveillance & Society ◽

10.24908/ss.v13i2.5346 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 233-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Daniel Greene

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Visual Culture ◽

War On Terror ◽

Security Studies ◽

Public Accounting ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Political Network ◽

Drone Warfare ◽

Global War ◽

Globally Distributed

What does the drone want? What does the drone need? Such questions, posed explicitly and implicitly by anthropomorphized drones in contemporary popular culture, may seem like distractions from more pressing political and empirical projects addressing the Global War on Terror (GWOT). But the artifacts posing these questions offer a different way of viewing contemporary surveillance and violence that helps decouple the work of drones from justifications for drone warfare, and reveals the broader technological and political network of which drones are the most immediate manifestation. This article explores ‘drone vision’ a globally distributed apparatus for finding, researching, fixing and killing targets of the GWOT, and situates dramatizations of it within recent new materialist theoretical debates in surveillance and security studies. I model the tactic of ‘seeing like a drone’ in order to map the networks that support it. This tactic reveals a disconnect between the materials and discourses of drone vision, a disconnect I historicize within a new, imperial visual culture of war distinct from its modernist, disciplinary predecessor. I then explore two specific attempts to see like a drone: the drone art of London designer James Bridle and the Tumblr satire Texts from Drone. I conclude by returning to drone anthropomorphism as a technique for mapping the apparatus of drone vision, arguing that drone meme arises precisely in response to these new subjects of war, as a method to call their diverse, often hidden, materials to a public accounting.

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Representing torture in Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Popular culture as a site of norm contestation

Media War & Conflict ◽

10.1177/1750635219864023 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 175063521986402 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gabi Schlag

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

War On Terror ◽

Public Image ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

The Public ◽

Global War ◽

A Site ◽

Enhanced Interrogation ◽

Kathryn Bigelow ◽

The Continuum

The global war on terror (GWOT) is undoubtedly the most recent case where a government authorized ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’, a euphemism for torture. In addition to shocking stories and photographs from Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and CIA black site prisons, popular culture assists in the production of torture’s public image and indicates a site of norm contestation. Therefore, the aim of this article is threefold. First, the author shows that Zero Dark Thirty (2012, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) is constitutive for the public image of torture and its meaning-in-use. Second, she argues that the film’s representation of torture works as a popular site of contesting the anti-torture norm. Finally, she reflects on the continuum between popular culture and the politics of torture.

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Space, scale and Just War: meeting the challenge of humanitarian intervention and trans-national terrorism

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210508008188 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 581-600 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

JOHN WILLIAMS

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

International Relations ◽

War On Terror ◽

Just War ◽

Humanitarian Intervention ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Space Scale ◽

Global War ◽

The Cold War ◽

The Way

AbstractThis article contributes to current debates about Just War by analysing an insufficiently recognised problem with the way Just War theorists have responded to the two principal challenges surrounding the ethics of violence in international relations since the end of the Cold War – humanitarian intervention and the ‘global war on terror’. The problem focuses on strongly embedded assumptions that exist in contemporary Just War debates about the nature and meaning of territory. The article argues that Just War needs to engage more systematically with challenges to dominant ‘Westphalian’ framings of territory, space and scale in order to contribute more effectively to important ethical debates about the use of violence in international relations.

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