Article
Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/articles/9p290b01g
- Abstract
- This article examines the crisis of capitalist seduction through the lens of online shopping platforms that raise funds for international assistance organizations and development celebrity advertising. Consumer-based giving has altered the commodity fetish into cliché, subsequently masking the capitalist produced crisis of endemic poverty and global inequality. Celebrity supported consumer-based giving and product advertising are used to illustrate the seductions of capitalism. This article argues that international assistance organizations are embedded in the substance and lifeblood of capitalisms’ dependence on inequality and poverty to generate profits/wealth. Consumer driven assistance remains a pervasive crisis hidden by seductive shopping platforms camouflaged as compassion.
- Creator
- Date Issued
- 2017-06-01
- Academic Affiliation
- Journal Title
- Journal Issue/Number
- 2
- Journal Volume
- 6
- Dernière modification
- 2019-12-05
- Resource Type
- Déclaration de droits
- DOI
- ISSN
- 2076-0787
- Language
- License
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