Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era

While popular with critics and fans, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films-beginning with Casino Royale (2006)-relays troublesome messages about identity and power. Engaging with these issues, Resisting James Bond is a multidisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches. As Craig’s tenure as 007 with the premiere of No Time to Die in 2021 has recently ended, it is the time to examine how this particular grouping of Bond films constructs and mobilizes conditions of power, privilege, and social injustice. The new millennium has seen the rise of various social justice movements that challenge deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression such as racism, national/ethnic sovereignty, sexual violence, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigration, religious oppression, wealth inequality, corporate capitalism, and environmental justice, among others. Growing awareness of, and advocacy for, these issues has been matched by an increasing number of scholars producing engaging research exploring systems of oppression, their intersections, and their unequal impact on marginal/minority groups.