Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations - Bog

There is a pressing need to examine celebrities and the role of context in the power relations that constitute North-South relations. This book gazes through the keyhole of `celebrity¿ in order to investigate key concepts such as accountability, agency, authenticity, brand, development, mediation, inequality, need, public engagement and representation. This book offers a global, interdisciplinary and theoretically-informed collection of cases highlighting celebrity engagement in over a dozen countries on five continents.