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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations : Politics, Place and Power.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315721187
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  • 361.7/4
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Contents:
CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM AND NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS - FRONT COVER -- CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM AND NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM AND NORTH - SOUTH RELATIONS - POLITICS, PLACE AND POWER -- Why is it important to understand celebrity humanitarianism? -- Situating celebrity humanitarianism within contemporary academic debates -- Defining the concepts: "celebrity," "North-South relations" and "humanitarianism" -- Organization of the book -- Conclusion: politics, place and power -- Notes -- References -- PART I: CELEBRITY IMPACT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH -- CHAPTER 1: ANGELINA JOLIE AND THE EVERYDAY GEOPOLITICS OF CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM IN A THAILAND-BURMA BORDER TOWN -- Introduction -- The everyday geopolitics of celebrity humanitarianism -- The celebrity cosmopolitan aesthetic -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 2: MADONNA IN MALAWI: CELEBRITIZED INTERVENTIONS AND LOCAL POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH -- Introduction -- Context: the politics of development in Malawi -- Introduction to Raising Malawi -- Theoretical approaches to celebrity humanitarianism and local politics of development -- Methodology -- Debating Madonna - the humanitarian -- Conclusion: celebrities and elite politics in the South -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3: MUHAMMAD YUNUS: A BANGLADESHI AID CELEBRITY -- Aid celebrity: theory and methodology -- Narrating a life in the Global South -- The rise of microcredit -- The limits of aid celebrity -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 4: SOPHIE'S SPECIAL SECRET: PUBLIC FEELING, CONSUMPTION AND CELEBRITY ACTIVISM IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA -- Introduction -- Context: a better life for all?.
Theoretical approaches to helping others: colonialism, consumption and celebrity -- Methodology: soap opera and self-making -- Analysis: Sophie Ndaba as gendered celebrity commodity -- Consumption and/as giving back in the present -- Self and/as Other -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 5: CELEBRITY PHILANTHROPY IN CHINA : THE POLITICAL CRITIQUE OF PU CUNXIN'S AIDS HEROISM -- Celebrity health activism and the cultivation of HIV knowledge in China -- The "AIDS hero" and the cultivation of Pu Cunxin -- Heroism, civility and philanthropic acts in China -- Conclusion: heroes emerge in troubled times -- Notes -- Images available online -- References -- PART II: CELEBRITIZATION, PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY, AND THE DONOR NORTH -- CHAPTER 6: BEN AFFLECK GOES TO WASHINGTON: CELEBRITY ADVOCACY, ACCESS AND INFLUENCE -- Background on the case -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Affleck takes up the cause of eastern Congo -- Williamsworks and Affleck co-found an organization -- Launching ECI -- Eastern Congo Initiative mediates between North and South -- Grant-making in the South -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF WORKER SEAN PENN : A CONTEXTUAL STORY -- Introduction -- Structure -- Context -- Theoretical perspectives from cosmopolitanism -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 8: IRONY AND POLITICALLY INCORRECT HUMANITARIANISM:DANISH CELEBRITY-LED BENEFIT EVENTS -- Introduction -- The Danish context: humility and humor -- Theoretical framework: irony, enlightenment and democracy -- Methodology: two case studies -- Targeting a Danish audience through politically incorrect folkelighed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 9: CELEBRITY, HUMANITARIANISM AND SETTLER-COLONIALISM: G.A. ROBINSON AND THE ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
George Augustus Robinson - "The Conciliator" -- The Friendly Mission -- The Establishment for Aborigines, Flinders Island -- Humanitarianism and the networks of empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- EPILOGUE: THE POLITICS OF CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM -- Notes -- References -- INDEX.
Summary: There is a pressing need to examine celebrities and the role of context in the power relations that constitute North-South relations. This book gazes through the keyhole of 'celebrity' in order to investigate key concepts such as accountability, agency, authenticity, brand, development, mediation, inequality, need, public engagement and representation. This book offers a global, interdisciplinary and theoretically-informed collection of cases highlighting celebrity engagement in over a dozen countries on five continents.
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CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM AND NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS - FRONT COVER -- CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM AND NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM AND NORTH - SOUTH RELATIONS - POLITICS, PLACE AND POWER -- Why is it important to understand celebrity humanitarianism? -- Situating celebrity humanitarianism within contemporary academic debates -- Defining the concepts: "celebrity," "North-South relations" and "humanitarianism" -- Organization of the book -- Conclusion: politics, place and power -- Notes -- References -- PART I: CELEBRITY IMPACT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH -- CHAPTER 1: ANGELINA JOLIE AND THE EVERYDAY GEOPOLITICS OF CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM IN A THAILAND-BURMA BORDER TOWN -- Introduction -- The everyday geopolitics of celebrity humanitarianism -- The celebrity cosmopolitan aesthetic -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 2: MADONNA IN MALAWI: CELEBRITIZED INTERVENTIONS AND LOCAL POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH -- Introduction -- Context: the politics of development in Malawi -- Introduction to Raising Malawi -- Theoretical approaches to celebrity humanitarianism and local politics of development -- Methodology -- Debating Madonna - the humanitarian -- Conclusion: celebrities and elite politics in the South -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3: MUHAMMAD YUNUS: A BANGLADESHI AID CELEBRITY -- Aid celebrity: theory and methodology -- Narrating a life in the Global South -- The rise of microcredit -- The limits of aid celebrity -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 4: SOPHIE'S SPECIAL SECRET: PUBLIC FEELING, CONSUMPTION AND CELEBRITY ACTIVISM IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA -- Introduction -- Context: a better life for all?.

Theoretical approaches to helping others: colonialism, consumption and celebrity -- Methodology: soap opera and self-making -- Analysis: Sophie Ndaba as gendered celebrity commodity -- Consumption and/as giving back in the present -- Self and/as Other -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 5: CELEBRITY PHILANTHROPY IN CHINA : THE POLITICAL CRITIQUE OF PU CUNXIN'S AIDS HEROISM -- Celebrity health activism and the cultivation of HIV knowledge in China -- The "AIDS hero" and the cultivation of Pu Cunxin -- Heroism, civility and philanthropic acts in China -- Conclusion: heroes emerge in troubled times -- Notes -- Images available online -- References -- PART II: CELEBRITIZATION, PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY, AND THE DONOR NORTH -- CHAPTER 6: BEN AFFLECK GOES TO WASHINGTON: CELEBRITY ADVOCACY, ACCESS AND INFLUENCE -- Background on the case -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Affleck takes up the cause of eastern Congo -- Williamsworks and Affleck co-found an organization -- Launching ECI -- Eastern Congo Initiative mediates between North and South -- Grant-making in the South -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF WORKER SEAN PENN : A CONTEXTUAL STORY -- Introduction -- Structure -- Context -- Theoretical perspectives from cosmopolitanism -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 8: IRONY AND POLITICALLY INCORRECT HUMANITARIANISM:DANISH CELEBRITY-LED BENEFIT EVENTS -- Introduction -- The Danish context: humility and humor -- Theoretical framework: irony, enlightenment and democracy -- Methodology: two case studies -- Targeting a Danish audience through politically incorrect folkelighed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 9: CELEBRITY, HUMANITARIANISM AND SETTLER-COLONIALISM: G.A. ROBINSON AND THE ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

George Augustus Robinson - "The Conciliator" -- The Friendly Mission -- The Establishment for Aborigines, Flinders Island -- Humanitarianism and the networks of empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- EPILOGUE: THE POLITICS OF CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM -- Notes -- References -- INDEX.

There is a pressing need to examine celebrities and the role of context in the power relations that constitute North-South relations. This book gazes through the keyhole of 'celebrity' in order to investigate key concepts such as accountability, agency, authenticity, brand, development, mediation, inequality, need, public engagement and representation. This book offers a global, interdisciplinary and theoretically-informed collection of cases highlighting celebrity engagement in over a dozen countries on five continents.

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