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Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary

Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary

Lau, Dorothy

Paperback

Series: Asian Visual Cultures

General Asian HistoryGeneral SociologyArt & Popular Culture

ISBN10: 1041176635
ISBN13: 9781041176633
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests muliversal consciousness, a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

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