{"title":"Celebrity activism and the making of solidarity capital","authors":"B. Campanella","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114316971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All under the Same Sky? Celebrity philanthropy and the transnational market for women’s empowerment","authors":"Annika Bergman Rosamond, Catia Gregoratti","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121618345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celebrity activism and revolution","authors":"Panos Kompatsiaris","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115797658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting peace and coffee pods","authors":"Joshua Gulam","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter asks what is at stake in the pairing of Nespresso with a celebrity activist like George Clooney. Through close analysis of Clooney’s Nespresso promotions, in addition to a range of film and publicity texts, it considers the complex exchange of meanings between the multibillion-dollar coffee brand and the Hollywood actor. In what ways do Clooney’s Nespresso advertisements complicate and/or consolidate the meanings associated with his humanitarian image? And how has the star’s involvement helped to legitimise the practices of Nespresso and its parent company? Overall, then, this chapter contributes to a growing body of scholarship that examines the political economic tensions of celebrity activism. Specifically, it explores the tensions that exist between the celebrity as branded commodity, on the one hand, and their charitable and political activities, on the other. At each stage of the analysis, the chapter is concerned with how such tensions are resolved, and to what extent this works to reproduce hegemonic capitalist inequality. \u0000 \u0000The chapter begins by examining what the involvement of Clooney communicates about the Nespresso brand. This section looks in detail at Nespresso’s branding as an ‘ethical’ company and the role that Clooney plays in furthering these promotional claims. A second section explores the complex ways in which Clooney’s Nespresso ambassadorship intersects with his appearances in a series of anti-corporate films, including Up in the Air (2009) and Michael Clayton (2007). Here, I consider how the star has sought to frame his endorsements in ways that are consistent with both his on-screen roles and his off-screen campaigning.","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131468487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authentic activism","authors":"Jackie Raphael","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115195852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Funded by philanthropy, founded for activism","authors":"Lukasz Swiatek","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114221039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Bring back our girls’","authors":"S. Hopkins, E. Louw","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-5","url":null,"abstract":"In April 2014, 276 female students, aged 16-18 years, were kidnapped from an all-girls secondary school in Chibok in north-Eastern Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamist militants. Boko Haram targeted schools for supposedly teaching 'sinful' Western values and diverting students from traditional Islamic life and teachings. Girls in particular were targeted because, according to Boko Haram Islamic militants, girls and women should be married and not educated. The kidnapped girls were, according to the group's spokesperson, sold into sexual slavery or forced 'marriages' with Boko Haram soldiers (BBC News 2014).","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121237120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-opting the ‘Losers’","authors":"Nathan Farrell","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126999295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The value-form of persona","authors":"H. Wheaton, S. Nandy","doi":"10.4324/9781315560519-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560519-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388132,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130059901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}