Age of Icons - Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Neoliberal Capitalism as the Age of Icons

Martijn Konings (University of Sydney, Political Economy) and Gavin Fridell (Saint Mary's University, Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies)

Chapter One: Humanitarian Heroes?

Ilan Kapoor (York University, Environmental Studies)

Chapter Two: The ‘Oprah Effect’: The Ideological Work of Neoliberalism

Janice Peck (University of Colorado Boulder, Journalism and Mass Communication)

Chapter Three: Celebritus Politicus, Neo-liberal Sustainabilities and the Terrains of Care

Mike Goodman (King's College London, Geography)

Chapter Four: Al Gore as Carbon Warrior: The Politics of Inaction

Kate Ervine (Trent University, Politics)

Chapter Five: (Product) RED: Glam-Aid, Consumer Citizens and the Colonization of Governance

Colleen O'Manique (Trent University, Gender and Women's Studies) and Momin Rahman (Trent University, Sociology)

Chapter Six: Cosmopolitanism Reinvented: Neoliberal Globalization and Thomas Friedman

Feyzi Baban (Trent University, Politics)

Chapter Seven: Governance Fantasies: Joseph Stiglitz and the Citizen-Bureaucrat

Gavin Fridell (Saint Mary's University, Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies)

Bibliography

About the author

Edited by Gavin Fridell and Martijn Konings

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Fridell, Gavin Konings Fridell, Martijn Konings
• Assisted by: Gavin Fridell (Editor), Martijn Konings (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9781442612037
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1203-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education