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Batman saves the Congo : how celebrities disrupt the politics of development / Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]Description: xxviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1517907586
  • 1517907594
  • 9781517907587
  • 9781517907594
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Batman saves the CongoDDC classification:
  • 338.91096751 23
LOC classification:
  • HV555 .C75 B83 2021
Contents:
Introduction: Batman Saves the Congo -- Celebrity, Disruption, and Neoliberal Development -- Narrating the Congo: Dangerous Single Stories and the Organizations That Need Them -- Choosing the Congo: How a Celebrity Builds a Development Organization -- Marketing the Congo: Products That Sell Development -- Saving Congolese Coffee: Celebrities and the Business Model for Development -- Celebrities and the Local Politics of Development: As Seen from Kinshasa -- Conclusions on Celebrity and Development: Disruption, Advocacy, and Commodification -- Epilogue: COVID-19 and Making ECI Relevant Again.
Summary: "How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV555 .C75 B83 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001499234

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Batman Saves the Congo -- Celebrity, Disruption, and Neoliberal Development -- Narrating the Congo: Dangerous Single Stories and the Organizations That Need Them -- Choosing the Congo: How a Celebrity Builds a Development Organization -- Marketing the Congo: Products That Sell Development -- Saving Congolese Coffee: Celebrities and the Business Model for Development -- Celebrities and the Local Politics of Development: As Seen from Kinshasa -- Conclusions on Celebrity and Development: Disruption, Advocacy, and Commodification -- Epilogue: COVID-19 and Making ECI Relevant Again.

"How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space"-- Provided by publisher.

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