George A. Gonzalez

Gebundenes Buch

The Politics of Star Trek

Justice, War, and the Future

Beschreibung

The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in Star Trek across its iterations, arguing that Star Trek offers an indispensable contribution to our understanding of politics in the modern era.

Autor

George A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, USA. He is the author of numerous books including  Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital (2009), Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States (2012), and Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic (2013). He is co-editor of Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking (1997), which won the 1998 Lynton Caldwell Book Award, given by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy section of the American Political Science Association. Professor Gonzalez's work in the field of Star Trek Studies has been published in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-54940-2
• 2015 edition
• Seitenzahl: 219
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781137549402
• ISBN-10: 1137549408
• Artikelnr.: 42851984

Rezensionen

"Gonzalez (politics, Univ. of Miami) explores how the Star Trek franchise makes an intellectual/analytical contribution to understanding politics of the modern era. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." (P. D. Hopkins, Choice, Vol. 53 (12), August, 2016)