If there is one bit of recent pop culture that will have enduring value as a common reference in the classroom, it is almost certainly Harry Potter.*Â Since his fictional 33rd birthday was this week, here's this week's FNB: Â Â Â Â Â * Not to mention that our Father Duck...
One draft of a piece that will not be appearing anytime soon. I will post the other version, a strategic-studies analysis of the outcome of the Deathly Hallows, later on.The sixth Harry Potter film,...
Amanda Marcotte (via Zack Beauchamp):"Harry isn't a nerd," I said, "Harry is a jock." I mean, Harry has an existential crisis that gives him some depth, but social outcast and/or geek he's not. The...
We saw HPatDHpt2 (as the young'ns are calling it) this evening. It was quite good: action-packed, emotionally satisfying, and all that. We sat next to a group of hipster teenagers who were extremely...
It's always fascinating to me to see certain traditional arguments, arguments that I would have liked to think were long dead and buried, resurface in slightly altered form. Highbrow intellectual critics whom I would like to think have been suitably disarmed as a result of their prior encounters with their opponents seem to reincorporate and revivify as if by magic when a target at all similar to the prior object of their criticism emerges; out they spring, wand in hand, ready to cast a hex or three and ruin everyone else's fun.That's what Ron Charles seems to have in mind with his...
Another media appearance, this time in print.The books, whose sales total 325 million worldwide, have clearly moved well beyond the kiddy realm. At the conference – held from Aug. 2 to 5 at the Sheraton Centre – Potter books are referenced in subjects as diverse as law, terrorism and international relations. Harry Potter has even cropped up in U.S. politics – Cheney-Voldemort '08 is a popular bumper sticker, with bloggers referring to the Vice President as "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named." As Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." Rowlings' books are among the...
I'm scheduled to appear on Canada AM at 7:45am on Wednesday. This is my first television interview, so if any of our northern readers want to let me know how I did, you should tune in. I'll be discussing, of course, Harry Potter.UPDATE: Video here. No Flip4Mac support, though.
Jeffrey Trachtenberg of the Wall Street Journal investigates the non-fiction bandwagon around the Harry Potter franchise.When J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" hits bookstores July 21, it will, as virtually everyone knows, mark the end of a 10-year run of seven books that have made publishing history.But the series has spawned a whole literary ecosystem, with new offshoots expected to spring up as never before during these next few months. Hordes of adventuresome publishers are out there already, and others will be trying to cash in with books that predict what could...
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to let Blake Hounshell have a review copy of Harry Potter and International Relations.On the other hand, "a brilliant, subversive parody of IR scholarship..." has a certain ring to it.I've been sitting on another book review because I don't know the actual publication date, but there's a very positive write up of the book coming out--or perhaps already out--in the Norwegian Journal of Political Science.JENNIFER L. BAILEYHarry Potter and International RelationsDaniel H. Nexon and Iver B. Neumann, eds. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc....
The most recent issue of International Affairs (January 2007) includes a review of Harry Potter and International Relations.Harry Potter and international relations. Edited by Daniel H. Nexon and Iver B. Neumann. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefi eld. 2006. 245pp. Index. Pb.: £15.99. isbn 0 7425 3959 8. My first advice for readers of this book would be: do not let the title fool you, this is a serious book. I must admit I requested to review this book with a certain amount of faith that I could while away hours reading about why Voldemort is the epitome of realism and how Dumbledore is a...
Even though nobody reads this blog, I'm going to pretend that this isn't the case. Thus, a request for help.One of my side projects is am edited volume on Harry Potter and international relations. The current opening paragraph reads as follows: This volume is about Harry Potter and world politics. This may seem like an odd topic. What, one might ask, can works of children’s fantasy possibly teach us about war, peace, intervention, international trade, transnational movements, and other concerns that form the core of the study of international politics? The answer is that the Harry Potter...