Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.
Each chapter illustrates how the impoverished rhetoric of celebrities often privileges the voices of those in the Global North over the efforts of local NGOs who have been working for years at addressing the same humanitarian crises. Whether we are talking about the building of schools for young...