Celebrity Humanitarianism And North-South Relations: Politics, Place And Power (Rethinking Development) - 9781138854277

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.

• | Author: Lisa Ann Richey
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138854271
• | ISBN-13: 9781138854277