Schulzke, Marcus Brady orcid.org/0000-0002-5998-138X (Accepted: 2017) Schmitt’s Telluric Partisan in American Entertainment Media:Fantasies of Resistance and Territorial Defense. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. ISSN 0305-8298 (In Press)
Abstract
This article explores the political significance of the narratives of partisan warfare that appear in American popular culture. I draw on Carl Schmitt’s concept of the ‘telluric partisan’ – a figure that fights outside the normative boundaries of conventional war in defense of a homeland and the traditional identities that are rooted in it. These fantasies provide a sense of moral clarity, promote national unity, characterize enemy aggression, and glorify traditional values. They establish a readymade narrative that can be invoked to frame conflicts in terms of the heroic defense of an innocent and victimized people protecting themselves against foreigners and their dangerous ideologies. As I show, this call for popular engagement in war generally serves a conservative project of directing potentially revolutionary expressions of populism and vigilante justice into defense of family and the territorial status quo.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2017 16:20 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2025 05:23 |
Status: | In Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116631 |
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