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Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero
Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The word crisis derives from the Greek , ***** “judgment.” Interestingly, DC Comics published in 1985 a twelve-part series titled Crisis on Infinite Earths whose main goal was to clean up the chaos of narrative parallel universes which DC’s writers had established over the past forty-five years, in order to start afresh with one single story continuity. While a miserable fail as an attempt at simplification, Crisis on Infinite Earths still inaugurated an era of multifaceted, elaborate and rich superhero comic books. Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986) are the first instances of …
Popular Representations Of Leadership: Heroes And Superheroes In Times Of Crisis, Luis Gomez Romero
Popular Representations Of Leadership: Heroes And Superheroes In Times Of Crisis, Luis Gomez Romero
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The importance of popular culture in the study of politics–especially in the creation, development and propagation of political ideas–has scarcely been examined in any depth by students of politics. The cultural representations of political institutions and processes apparently escape the defined fields of the theoretical disciplines concerned with political phenomena. Political philosophy, particularly in the Englishspeaking world, has been largely committed in the last four decades to provide rationally compelling arguments aimed to justify the principles of political morality, detaching itself from concrete political experience and privileging instead an abstract, universal and ahistorical normative account of the ideal polity. Political …
Responding To Genocide: Australian Parliamentary Discussions About The Crisis In Darfur, Deborah Mayersen, Thomas Galloway
Responding To Genocide: Australian Parliamentary Discussions About The Crisis In Darfur, Deborah Mayersen, Thomas Galloway
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
‘Australia’s response [to the crisis in Darfur] has been slow, it has been hesitant, and, I regret to say, it has been inadequate’, remarked Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd in February 2005 (House of Representatives Hansard: 47). Since 2003, genocide in Darfur has claimed more than 300,000 lives, with 2.6 million more displaced by the conflict (Degomme and Guha-Sapir 2010: 294-300; Reeves 2012). The international response to the crisis has been slow and lacklustre, and while the intensity of the conflict has fluctuated in the past nine years, the situation remains dire. The Australian government’s policy response to …