TY  - BOOK
AU  - Budabin,Alexandra Cosima
AU  - Richey,Lisa Ann
TI  - Batman saves the Congo: how celebrities disrupt the politics of development 
SN  - 1517907586
AV  - HV555 .C75 B83 2021
U1  - 338.91096751 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - Political activity
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic development projects
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Humanitarian assistance
KW  - Non-governmental organizations
KW  - Public-private sector cooperation
N1  - 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
N2  - "How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space"--
ER  -