The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES in EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIAL RESEARCH 498
JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES IN EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH 498 Riina Yrjölä The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES IN EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH 498 Riina Yrjölä The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism Esitetään Jyväskylän yliopiston yhteiskuntatieteellisen tiedekunnan suostumuksella julkisesti tarkastettavaksi yliopiston vanhassa juhlasalissa S212 toukokuun 24. päivänä 2014 kello 12. Academic dissertation to be publicly discussed, by permission of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Jyväskylä, in building Seminarium, auditorium S212 on May 24, 2014 at 12 o’clock noon. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ JYVÄSKYLÄ 2014 The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES IN EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH 498 Riina Yrjölä The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ JYVÄSKYLÄ 2014 Editors Jussi Kotkavirta Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä Pekka Olsbo, Ville Korkiakangas Publishing Unit, University Library of Jyväskylä URN:ISBN:978-951-39-5691-2 ISBN 978-951-39-5691-2 (PDF) ISBN 978-951-39-5690-5 (nid.) ISSN 0075-4625 Copyright © 2014, by University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä University Printing House, Jyväskylä 2014 ABSTRACT Yrjölä, Riina The Global Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2014, 161 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research, ISSN 0075-4625; 498) ISBN 978-951-39-5690-5 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-5691-2 (PDF) This thesis is a critical examination of discourses surrounding Bob Geldof’s and Bono’s humanitarian action in Africa. Rather than examining whether or not this celebrity humanitarian activity is instrumental or detrimental to African development, the purpose of this study is to bring into fore how the contemporary celebrity humanitarian intelligibilities and imaginaries are premised upon a violent colonial impulses that limit, distribute and govern African space, bodies and history with overdetermining constitution of identity/difference.
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