Celebrity and the Environment
Subtitle: Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: August 18, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781842779743
Subjects: Business & Investing -- Economics -- Economic Policy & Development; Nonfiction -- Politics; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Political Science -- Public Policy; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Popular Culture; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology; Outdoors & Nature -- Environment -- Conservation
Description: The battle to save the world is being joined by a powerful new group of warriors. Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this timely and essential 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.