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The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism

The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism

Farrell, Nathan

Hardcover

Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1138675687
ISBN13: 9781138675681
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 7 2019
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This edited collection brings together scholarly works of both a theoretical and empirical nature to critically analyse the forms and functions of the contemporary celebrity activist and to examine how these intersect with the political economic structures in which celebrity activists operate.

Collectively, the volume illuminates some of the inherent tensions between the ethos of solidarity and compassion that the celebrity activist works to generate on the one hand and the processes of corporate sponsorship and discourses of individualism upon which the celebrity often depends, on the other. By offering empirical case studies that situate instances of celebrity activism within specific political contexts, the collection highlights how celebrity activism intersects with some of the underlying structures of gender politics and political discourses such as neoliberalism. In addition, the volume discusses how the tensions between, for example, individualism and solidarity can raise important questions about the authenticity of individual celebrity activists and how individual celebrity activists work, with varying degrees of success, to obfuscate such tensions and obscure the potential contradictions of their work.

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