Celebrity and the Environment
Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation
Celebrities are increasingly lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity and conservation causes provide for each other, and more fundamentally, that the flourishing of celebrity and charismatic conservation is part of an ever-closer intertwining of conservation and corporate capitalism. Saving the World diagnoses an ironic impoverishment of our relationship with nature. While wildlife television documentaries flourish, there is a significant decline in vi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84277-973-6
- EAN: 9781842779736
- Produktnummer: 4586615
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 205 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.8 cm 362 g
- Gewicht: 362
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Dan Brockington's work on conservation has touched the social impacts of protected areas, the politics of community conservation and the work of conservation NGOs. He has conducted long term field research for several years in Tanzania as well as shorter projects in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India. He has worked at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London and is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester.
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