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Commodity Activism : Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times.
Title:
Commodity Activism : Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times.
Author:
Mukherjee, Roopali.
ISBN:
9780814763018
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Critical Cultural Communication
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Commodity Activism in Neoliberal Times -- PART ONE: BRAND, CULTURE, ACTION -- 1 Brand Me "Activist" -- 2 "Free Self-Esteem Tools?": Brand Culture, Gender, and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign -- 3 Citizen Brand: ABC and the Do Good Turn in US Television -- 4 Good Housekeeping: Green Products and Consumer Activism -- PART TWO: CELEBRITY, COMMODITY, CITIZENSHIP -- 5 Make It Right? Brad Pitt, Post-Katrina Rebuilding, and the Spectacularization of Disaster -- 6 Diamonds (Are from Sierra Leone): Bling and the Promise of Consumer Citizenship -- 7 Salma Hayek's Celebrity Activism: Constructing Race, Ethnicity, and Gender as Mainstream Global Commodities -- 8 Mother Angelina: Hollywood Philanthropy Personified -- 9 "Fair Vanity": The Visual Culture of Humanitarianism in the Age of Commodity Activism -- PART THREE: COMMUNITY, MOVEMENTS , POLITICS -- 10 Civic Fitness: The Body Politics of Commodity Activism -- 11 Eating for Change -- 12 Changing the World One Orgasm at a Time: Sex Positive Retail Activism -- 13 Pay-for Culture: Television Activism in a Neoliberal Digital Age -- 14 Feeling Good While Buying Goods: Promoting Commodity Activism to Latina Consumers -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Buying (RED) products-from Gap T-shirts to Apple-to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser have gathered an exemplary group of scholars to explore this new landscape through a series of case studies of "commodity activism." Drawing from television, film, consumer activist campaigns, and cultures of celebrity and corporate patronage, the essays take up examples such as the Dove "Real Beauty" campaign, sex positive retail activism, ABC's Extreme Home Makeover, and Angelina Jolie as multinational celebrity missionary. Exploring the complexities embedded in contemporary political activism, Commodity Activism reveals the workings of power and resistance as well as citizenship and subjectivity in the neoliberal era. Refusing to simply position politics in opposition to consumerism, this collection teases out the relationships between material cultures and political subjectivities, arguing that activism may itself be transforming into a branded commodity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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