Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism

by Lilie Chouliaraki

Book Overview

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award

This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They tell us something about the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074564211X
• ISBN13: 9780745642116
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"