{"product_id":"the-ironic-spectator-solidarity-in-the-age-of-post-humanitarianism-paperback-softback-9780745642116","title":"The Ironic Spectator; Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745642116","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSolidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLilie Chouliaraki (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745642116, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 2 cm, 0.39 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book achieves a rare combination of opening new analytical and theoretical ground while retaining direct and lucid engagement with critical and urgent human concerns.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe British Journal of Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e, therefore, is not only an eminent work of media studies scholarship that presents a detailed and inspiring analytical framework. Its theorization of post-humanitarianism and the aesthetic and sociopolitical questions posed by new media practices deserves to earn it a wide readership in all disciplines interested in contemporary popular culture and world politics.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean Journal of Communication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The significance of \u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e for students and scholars of contemporary media, international relations, 'development', and the broader social sciences, and, ideally, people working within media, for NGOs and INGOs, and the wider humanitarian and development sectors, cannot be overstated.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Semiotics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Chouliaraki conducts an impressive, interdisciplinary analysis. She embraces the paradoxes and ambivalences of each genre, presenting a state of the art critique, and thoroughly analysing the genre's past and present form in order to suggest how the changes in communicative structure may affect how we are invited to act on distant others.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Journal of Development Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Chouliaraki qualifies as a high priestess of the representation of suffering and how we engage with distant others. She dissects with great clarity exactly what is taking place in this post humanitarian sensibility and how supporters are now being drawn in to apparently care and show solidarity with distant sufferers.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As refreshing and enervating as a cold mountain spring on a hot day. Chouliaraki has extraordinary ability to condense and parse complex debates briskly.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of International Development\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Spectatorship of Suffering\u003c\/i\u003e, by Lilie Chouliaraki, rapidly became a classic, present on almost every key and suggested reading list on courses dealing with global media and international journalism.... Therefore, The Ironic Spectator is a more than welcome contribution to this field, offering an opportunity to discuss one of the most pressing issues in media and journalism studies. In this book, she deals with the issue of humanitarian communication, offering a comprehensive set of arguments which makes us think truly out of the box.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDigital Journalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lilie Chouliaraki's \u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e is the best journalism book for 2013.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eProf. Bob Franklin, Cardiff University; editor of \u003ci\u003eJournalism Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e will have far-reaching impact, as its arguments unsettle accepted paradigms in media ethics and development studies, but also in political communication, journalism, and social theory. Written in her distinctively lyrical prose, Lilie Chouliaraki's latest book inspires us to judge not only the efficiencies but the ethics of humanitarian projects. With it, we can no longer deny the infinite folly in failing to factor in the moral cost of self-centered communication.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Communication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In 2006 Lilie Chouliaraki published \u003ci\u003eThe Spectatorship of Suffering\u003c\/i\u003e which is commonly considered to be a seminal work within the young and emerging field of research that concerns itself with the issue of mediated disasters and human suffering.... It is fair to say that Chouliaraki has raised the bar once more with her more recent contribution to this field, \u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e, which discerns important differentiations, distinctions and transformations at work in the humanitarian mediation of human suffering while also reflecting on broader societal developments.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Journal of Communication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Chouliaraki provides us with an exceptionally rich, detailed and comprehensive framework for understanding the moral role of the media in our time. \u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e ... offers a compelling account of how humanitarian communications have become increasingly focused on the self, rather than the other, but also, perhaps more importantly, it offers an equally compelling normative vision of what humanitarian communication should look like.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritical Discourse Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An exceptionally important work.... We should be grateful to Lilie Chouliaraki for providing such inspiration and challenge.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCommunications\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"How can humanitarian communication move beyond the pitfalls of both traditional humanitarianism (which can reinforce stereotypical images of helpless victims from the South) and of post-humanitarianism? Chouliaraki provides an alternative theoretical model based on theatricality, but the extent to which it can be enforced in practice remains to be seen. Indeed, this is precisely why her book – written with brio, depth and sensitivity – is so valuable, and deserves attention. \u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for anyone professing to a level of social consciousness, and proves that academic debates can play a role in both fostering improved ethics in the context of a pervasive aspect of contemporary global life, as well as informing new humanitarian practices.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlobal Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lilie Chouliaraki is the Aristotle of mediated humanitarianism. With empirical finesse and theoretical bite, she shows how compassion for distant suffering turned from pity into glitz. And yet she defends theatricality as a potential moral force if checked by critical self-awareness. This book casts desperately needed light onto media and morality today.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Durham Peters, University of Iowa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this breakthrough investigation, Lilie Chouliaraki brings a 'sceptical optimism' to bear on humanitarian politics today. With its theoretical finesse and rich cases, The Ironic Spectator shows the transformations solidarity has recently undergone, and still needs to make, as citizens seek an emotional connection to a tragic but distant world.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSamuel Moyn, Columbia University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Utopia: Human Rights in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ironic Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly arresting argument for our global and mediated times. With razor intelligence, Chouliaraki slices into old debates, salvages what's still of use and structures new analytical constructs for the exploration of the possibilities of cosmopolitan solidarity in a 'post-humanitarian' world. Brilliant, disturbing, humane.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSimon Cottle, Cardiff University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lilie Chouliaraki provides us with excellent intellectual food for thought to keep 'us' (academics, teachers, development 'experts',...) on our toes!\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAidnography Blog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 ways in which we imagine the world outside ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy showing historical change in Amnesty International and Oxfam appeals, in the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, in the advocacy of Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie as well as in earthquake news on the BBC,  this far-reaching book shows how solidarity has today come to be not about conviction but choice, not vision but lifestyle, not others but ourselves – turning us into the ironic spectators of other people’s suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Solidarity and Spectatorship 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: 'Find your Feeling' 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTh e instrumentalization of humanitarianism 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSolidarity without 'grand narratives' 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe technologization of communication 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ethics of objectivity 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: on this book 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Humanitarian Imaginary 26\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: communicating vulnerability 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe theatricality of humanitarianism 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritiques of the theatricality of humanitarianism 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe humanitarian imaginary 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: on the performances of the imaginary 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Appeals 54\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the paradox of appeals 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crisis of the theatre of pity 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe controversy around appeals 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reflexive styles of appealing 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReflexive appeals and their authenticity effects 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: the ambivalence of 'cool' activism 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Celebrity 78\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the celebrity as expert performer 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheatre, celebrity, authenticity 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe celebrity controversy 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe performativity of celebrity humanitarianism 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Moments' of humanitarian performance 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCelebrity and its authenticity eff ects 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: towards a utilitarian altruism 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Concerts 106\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: rock as ritual ceremonies 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAid concerts: communitas or cynicism? 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn analytics of ceremonial performativity: Live Aid and Live 8 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authenticity effects of ceremonial humanitarianism 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: towards a strategic morality of solidarity 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 News 138\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the moral appeal of news 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe theatricality of journalism 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe controversy around television witnessing 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe analysis of narrative aesthetics 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNews narratives: a typology of witnessing 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authenticity eff ects of news: from narrative to database 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: objectivity or therapy? 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Theatricality, Irony, Solidarity 172\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the historical shifts of humanitarianism 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-humanitarianism: solidarity as irony 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-humanitarianism as neoliberalism 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond irony: solidarity as agonism 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: on being good 203\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 232\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Electronics \u0026amp; communications engineering [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Electronics \u0026amp; communications engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Electronics%20\u0026amp;%20communications%20engineering%20%5BTJ%5D%22\"\u003eTJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470082076952,"sku":"9780745642116","price":17.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745642116.jpg?v=1785631990","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ironic-spectator-solidarity-in-the-age-of-post-humanitarianism-paperback-softback-9780745642116","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}