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What celebrity humanitarianism have to do with empire?

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  • April R. Biccum

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The aim of this paper is to bring into conversation two apparently disparate debates in the fields of politics and International Relations. The first is a debate over celebrity humanitarianism that is divided between optimistic scholars, who see in it an enhancement of democracy, and pessimistic scholars, who link it to capitalist imperialism or a throwback to older colonial tropes. The second is a debate over a (new) American empire which has prompted scholars in IR to redress IR’s historic ‘elision’ of empire and to offer new network theories of empire. The paper argues that these two debates each address the shortcomings in the other and offers speculation on what celebrity humanitarianism might have to do with empire by bridging the connections between structuralist political theories of empire and the cultural accounts offered by postcolonial theory.

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  • April R. Biccum, 2016. "What celebrity humanitarianism have to do with empire?," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(6), pages 998-1015, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:37:y:2016:i:6:p:998-1015
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1120153
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