We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Lessons from Westeros: Gender and power in Game of Thrones.
- Authors
Clapton, William; Shepherd, Laura J.
- Abstract
People learn about global politics not (solely or even mostly) from conventional teaching in the discipline of International Relations (IR) but from popular culture. We use the television series Game of Thrones to expand upon this premise. We show how representations of the gendered foundations of political authority can be found in popular culture in ways that challenge the division of such knowledge in IR. Game of Thrones and other cultural texts potentially enable different ways of thinking about the world that subvert both the disciplinary mechanisms that divide up knowledge and the related marginalisation of various knowledge claims.
- Subjects
GENDER on television; GAME of Thrones (TV program); INTERNATIONAL relations; POPULAR culture
- Publication
Politics, 2017, Vol 37, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0263-3957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0263395715612101