ISBN:
0745642101
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1299469027
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9780745676395
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074564211X
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9781299469020
,
9780745642109
,
9780745642116
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 238 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Ironic Spectator : Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism
DDC:
302.2308694
Keywords:
Solidarity
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Mass media Social aspects
;
Social problems in mass media
;
Humanitarianism
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Developing countries In mass media
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They tell us something about the ways in which we imagine the world outside ourselves. By showing historical change in Amnesty International and Oxfam appeals, in the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, in the advocacy of Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie as well as in earthquake news on the BBC, this far-reaching book shows how solidarity has today come to be not about conviction but choice, not vision but lifestyle, not others but ourselves - turning us into the ironic spectators of other people's suffering. -Publisher Description
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Detailed Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Solidarity and Spectatorship; 2 The Humanitarian Imaginary; 3 Appeals; 4 Celebrity; 5 Concerts; 6 News; 7 Theatricality, Irony, Solidarity; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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