Celebritizing Conflict: How Ben Affleck Sells the Congo to Americans
Celebritizing Conflict: How Ben Affleck Sells the Congo to Americans
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庆祝冲突：本·阿弗莱克如何将刚果卖给美国人
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2016
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A. C. Budabin
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L. Richey;A. C. Budabin
从担任联合国大使到担任主要非政府组织活动的发言人，全球名人已成为促进非洲人道主义事业的日益重要的行动者。然而，名人人道主义的日益增加的可见度和扩散一直被批评为合法化和促进新自由主义资本主义和全球不平等。本文运用新兴的南北关系中的名人文献，分析了职业艺人本·阿弗莱克的名人话语和实践以及他在刚果民主共和国（DRC）的参与，以了解名人如何与非洲的贫困，冲突和发展的表现相交并推广。我们的结论是，在刚果民主共和国的非洲冲突的名人化，从阿弗莱克的干预措施的理解，仍然与市场营销的原因，名人和产品的需求，并大大从这些干预措施依赖的故事刚果人的声音。因此，在媒体饱和的时代，名人人道主义的约束限制了个别名人参与替代性的、更复杂的、不太友好的话语的可能性。
From serving as UN ambassadors to appearing as spokespersons for major NGO campaigns, global celebrities have become increasingly important actors in promoting humanitarian causes in Africa. Yet the growing visibility and proliferation of celebrity humanitarianism has been critiqued for legitimating and promoting neoliberal capitalism and global inequality. This article, using emerging literature on celebrities in north-south relations, analyzes the celebrity discourses and practices of professional entertainer Ben Affleck and his engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in order to understand how celebrities intersect with and popularize representations of poverty, conflict, and development in Africa. We conclude that the celebritization of African conflicts in the DRC—as understood from the interventions of Affleck—remain linked to the needs of marketing causes, celebrities, and products, and considerably removed from the voices of Congolese on whose stories these interventions rely. As a result, the constraints of celebrity humanitarianism in an age of media saturation limit the possibilities that individual celebrities might have in engaging in alternative, more complex, and less sound-bite friendly discourses.
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2014
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Brockington Dan
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Brockington Dan