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Age of Icons : Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442696228
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Age of IconsDDC classification:
  • 361.7
LOC classification:
  • HM836.A346 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Neoliberal Capitalism as the Age of Icons -- 1 Humanitarian Heroes? -- 2 The "Oprah Effect": The Ideological Work of Neoliberalism -- 3 Celebritus Politicus, Neoliberal Sustainabilities, and the Terrains of Care -- 4 Al Gore as Carbon Warrior: The Politics of Inaction -- 5 (Product) RED: Glam Aid, Consumer Citizens, and the Colonization of Governance -- 6 Cosmopolitanism Reinvented: Neoliberal Globalization and Thomas Friedman -- 7 Governance Fantasies: Joseph Stiglitz and the Citizen-Bureaucrat -- Bibliography -- Contributors.
Summary: This volume assesses the growing role of popular icons in the construction of a culture that appears to incorporate a critical attitude towards the capitalist experience while, in fact, legitimizing the neoliberal character of the modern world.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Neoliberal Capitalism as the Age of Icons -- 1 Humanitarian Heroes? -- 2 The "Oprah Effect": The Ideological Work of Neoliberalism -- 3 Celebritus Politicus, Neoliberal Sustainabilities, and the Terrains of Care -- 4 Al Gore as Carbon Warrior: The Politics of Inaction -- 5 (Product) RED: Glam Aid, Consumer Citizens, and the Colonization of Governance -- 6 Cosmopolitanism Reinvented: Neoliberal Globalization and Thomas Friedman -- 7 Governance Fantasies: Joseph Stiglitz and the Citizen-Bureaucrat -- Bibliography -- Contributors.

This volume assesses the growing role of popular icons in the construction of a culture that appears to incorporate a critical attitude towards the capitalist experience while, in fact, legitimizing the neoliberal character of the modern world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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