Popular Culture and War on Terror: Role of United States in International Relations | Sunita Samal

Popular culture is interesting to IR (International Relations) theorists in so far as it can naturalize or normalize a certain social order upon which dominant ideologies are founded. Here, the myths serve as a silent, sub-textual pillars of the real. Gestures of naturalization are phenomena of political power in so far as such power works through myths by appearing to the political out of ideological[[Weber, C. (2013)