Abidin, C., Brockington, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-5692-0154, Goodman, M.K. et al. (2 more authors) (2020) The tropes of celebrity environmentalism. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 45 (1). pp. 387-410. ISSN 1543-5938
Abstract
Celebrity advocacy for environmental causes has grown dramatically in recent decades. An examination of this expansion and the rise of causes such as climate change reveals the shifting politics and organization of advocacy. We address these changes to the construction and interpretation of celebrity advocacy and detail how they have produced a rich variety of environmental celebrity advocates. We also account for differences between legacy (e.g., radio, TV, newspapers) and online celebrities and their practices (e.g., hashtag publics, brandjacking, online communities). Environmental celebrity advocates’ performances can be divided into nine tropes, each characterized in part by the particular varieties of environmentalism that they promote. We present the tropes and discuss their five cross-cutting themes. We conclude with a set of questions for future research on celebrity environmentalism.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 by Annual Reviews. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information. |
Keywords: | trope; celebrity; environmentalism; inequality; social media; legacy media; politics; consumer |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2020 13:48 |
Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2020 13:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Annual Reviews |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-081703 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167980 |