Based on the reading by Ilan Kapoor, discuss the many problems with celebrity humanitarianism. Specifically, how does it promote both the celebrity’s brand and the image of the “caring” (Western) nation; entrench a marketing and promotion machine that helps advance corporate capitalism and rationalizes the very global inequality it seeks to redress; support to a “post-democratic” liberal political order that is outwardly democratic and populist, yet, for all intents and purposes, conducted by unaccountable elites; and use and abuse of the Third World, making Africa, in particular, a background for First World hero-worship and a dumping ground for humanitarian ideals and fantasies?
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