Batman saves the Congo : how celebrities disrupt the politics of development / Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]Description: xxviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1517907586
- 1517907594
- 9781517907587
- 9781517907594
- 338.91096751 23
- HV555 .C75 B83 2021
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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.
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