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Celebrity and the Environment - Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation (Hardcover)
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Celebrity and the Environment - Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation (Hardcover)
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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.
Celebrity promotions, the investments of rich executives, and the
wealthy social networks of charismatic conservationists are
producing more commodified and commercial conservation strategies;
conservation becomes an ever more important means of generating
profit. Celebrity and the Environment provides vital critical
analysis of this new phenomena and argues that, ironically, there
may be a hidden cost to celebrity power to individual's
relationships with the wild. The author argues that whilst wildlife
television documentaries flourish, there is a significant decline
in visits to national parks in many countries around the world and
this is evidence that t a time when conservationists are calling
for us to restore our relationships with the wild, many people are
doing so simply by following the exploits of celebrity
conservationists.
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