Celebrity and the environment : fame, wealth and power in conservation

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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. Read more... About the author; Acronyms; Preface; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Combining celebrity and the environment; 3 -- Conserving celebrities; 4 -- Wildlife presenters and wildlife film; 5 -- Celebrity conservation; 6 -- Concentrations of wealth and power; 7 -- Criticisms; 8 -- Saving the world; Notes; Bibliography; Index