Allegories of Pathology
Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…
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Frank Herbert’s prescience: Dune and the modern world
Senior, William A. 2006. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17, no. 4: 317-321. An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory for US and UK intervention in the Middle East.…
Securitization and desecuritization
Wæver, Ole. 1995. In On Security, edited by Ronnie D. Lipschutz, 46-87. 1st edition. New York: Columbia University Press. An interesting chapter that establishes the groundwork for one other source in this…
China’s Space Program: A 2021 Perspective
The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China. 2022. This White Paper introduces China’s launch of its new Space Program: envisioning the future to come and the current achievements of the…
China as a Narrative Challenge for NATO Member States
Šebok, Filip, and Turcsányi, Richard Q. 2021. In Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. This report offers an insight into the practical implications of narratives promoted by states online.…
The Role of Narrative in Managing Conflict and Supporting Peace
2021. Barcelona: Institute for Integrated Transitions. This discussion paper was published by the Barcelona-based Institute for Integrated Transitions, a non-governmental organization that seeks to establish “brain…
Everyday Peace: Bottom-Up and Local Agency in Conflict-Affected Societies
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2014. Security Dialogue 45, no.6: 548-561. This text explores the concept of an everyday peace, the routinized practices and interactions that bridge gaps in divided communities. It analyzes a series…
The Post-pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era
Chang, Yung-Yung. 2021. In Journal of Chinese Political Science 26 (1): 27-65. This article delves into the constructions of narratives online in relation to the Covid pandemic. To be more specific, the competing…
Waterloo, Napoleon, and the Vision of Peace in Louisa Stuart Costello’s ‘The Maid of the Cyprus Isle.’
Ruppert, Timothy. 2012. Studies in Romanticism 51, no. 4: 555–78. This text examines the poetry of Louisa Stuart Costello, a Romantic, Anglo-Irish poet, whose work, ‘The Maid of Cyprus Isle’, is often considered…
‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans
Downes, S. 2015. Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature, edited by S. Downes, et al., London, Palgrave Macmillan UK. This text investigates how the poetry of Charles d’Orleans, an aristocratic war…