The Politics of HBO's The Wire

This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As such, it is a visual text worth investigating and exploring for its nuanced examination of power, difference and inequality.

Auteur

Shirin Deylami is Assistant Professor of Political Science, with affiliations in Women's Studies, Queer Studies, and Islamic Studies, at Western Washington University. Her research interest lie at the intersection of feminist theory and comparative political thought. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Westoxification: Islamic Makings of the West. Her work has been published in the journals Polity and International Feminist Journal of Politics (forthcoming).

Jonathan Havercroft is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma with specialization in political theory. His primary research focus is on the historical transformation of sovereignty in the discourses of political philosophy from the 17th century to the present. He has also published essays grappling with conceptions of freedom, power, and sovereignty in early modern and contemporary political thought. His work has appeared in Constellations and Review of International Studies. His book, Captives of Sovereignty, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

Résumé
The International Trade and Business Law Review publishes leading articles, comments and case notes, as well as book reviews dealing with international trade and business law, arbitration law, foreign law and comparative law. It provides the legal and business communities with information, knowledge and understanding of recent developments in international trade, business and international commercial arbitration. The Review contributes in a scholarly way to the discussion of these developments while being informative and having practical relevance to business people and lawyers. It also devotes a section to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and publishes the memoranda prepared by teams coached by Professor Gabril A. Moens.The Review is edited at the Murdoch University School of Law in Perth, Australia. The Editors-in-Chief are Mr Roger Jones, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago and Gabril A. Moens, Dean and Professor of Law, Murdoch Law School. It is an internationally-refereed journal. The Review is supervised by an international board of editors that consists of leading international trade law practitioners and academics from the European Union, the United States, Asia and Australia. The Student Editors for Volume XI are Adam Totaro and Peter Clay from the Murdoch Law School.

Contenu

INTRODUCTION: Everything is Connected, Shirin S. Deylami & Jonathan Havercroft PART ONE: Building States, Crumbling Nations, 1. It Can't Be a Lie': The Wire as Breaching Experiment, Joshua Page & Joe Soss 2. Classroom Democracy: De-mystifying the Civic Nation in The Wire, Paul Goode PART TWO: Neo-Liberalism, Capitalist Power and Social Resistance 3. The Politics of Knowledge Production: On Structure and the World of "The Wire, Isaac Kamola 4. Corruption as Solidarity: An Inverted Republicanism to Resist Inverted Totalitarianism, Jonathan Havercroft 5. The Limits of Neoliberalism: Market Rationality in The Wire, Elisabeth Anker PART THREE: Precarious Intersections 6. "It's All in the Game": Masculinism, Mourning, and Violence in The Wire, Shirin S. Deylami 7. Seeing Gender Like a Wired State: The Missing Women of the Wire, Dara Z. Strolovitch & Naomi Murakawa