Introduction: Batman Saves the Congo -- Celebrity, Disruption, and Neoliberal Development -- Narrating the Congo: Dangerous Single Stories and the Organizations That Need Them -- Choosing the Congo: How a Celebrity Builds a Development Organization -- Marketing the Congo: Products That Sell Development -- Saving Congolese Coffee: Celebrities and the Business Model for Development -- Celebrities and the Local Politics of Development: As Seen from Kinshasa -- Conclusions on Celebrity and Development: Disruption, Advocacy, and Commodification -- Epilogue: COVID-19 and Making ECI Relevant Again
Alexandra Cosima Budabin Livres


A critical account of the rise of celebrity-driven “compassionate consumption.”