THE IRONIC SPECTATOR by Lilie Chouliaraki ( 9780745642116 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE IRONIC SPECTATOR
SOLIDARITY IN THE AGE OF POST-HUMANITARIANISM

By:

Lilie Chouliaraki

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

074564211X

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9780745642116

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Publisher:

POLITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 December, 2012

Pages:

248

Description:

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment.

Synopsis:

WINNER of the 2015 ICA 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.

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