Chouliaraki Lilie (London School Of Economics And Political Science) - The Ironic Spectator Solidarity In The Age Of Post - Humanitarianism - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the 2015 IC a Outstanding Book Award 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.
Title: The Ironic Spectator Solidarity In The Age Of Post - Humanitarianism
Author(s): Chouliaraki Lilie (London School Of Economics And Political Science)
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9780745642116
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2013
Category: Aid & Relief Programmes