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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Please circulate to interested parties, with thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Paul Allatson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:20.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Call
for papers: <i>Celebrity Philanthropy</i>, edited book<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#111111'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Editors: Paul Allatson and Elaine Jeffreys<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Affiliation: University of Technology,
Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Contact details: Paul.Allatson@uts.edu.au,
Elaine.Jeffreys@uts.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abstract
deadline: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Potential
contributors should send an abstract, maximum 200 words, with full contact
details, to the editors named above by 1 May 2010.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Chapter deadline: </span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>15 November 2010,
maximum 8,000 words plus references.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#111111'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Celebrity Philanthropy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Celebrity
philanthropy and the study of the sociopolitical role and impact of the
celebrity philanthropist are growing cultural phenomena. While the involvement
of celebrities in philanthropic work and activism is neither a new nor recent
phenomenon, many critics agree that celebrity philanthropy has expanded and
evolved in western societies since the 1990s. This change is usually attributed
to a combination of factors: the post-Cold War triumph of neoliberalism and the
decline of socialism and the welfare state ideal; the failure of governments
and politicians to resolve the structural inequalities of globalization; the
spread of information technology; the growing dependence of an increasingly
competitive non-profit sector on marketing, branding and public relations; and
the pervasiveness of celebrity culture in everyday life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Among
critics, celebrity philanthropy is alternatively praised and criticized as a
manifestation of the perceived benefits and downsides of advanced capitalism
and western liberal democracy in action. It is lauded for popularizing
humanitarian values and global citizenship, or condemned for affirming global
capitalism and undermining philanthropy’s potentially transformative
emphasis on the need for social change. While praise for celebrity philanthropy
often overstates its capacity to transform society, much criticism of celebrity
philanthropy dismisses celebrity as the epitome of all that is superficial and
deplorable about contemporary life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This
edited volume on celebrity philanthropy seeks to move beyond blanket dismissals
of celebrity philanthrophy by approaching celebrity, philanthropy and
international humanitarianism as related historical products of capitalism and
the mass media. The volume aims to explore how celebrity politics, celebrity
philanthropy, celebrity activism, and the individual motivations of celebrities
and their fans for philanthropic engagement, can take very different forms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
editors welcome case studies and typologies of </span><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'>celebrity philanthropy from across the
world</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> today that explore
such issues as the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#111111'>links or tensions between celebrity philanthropy and activism,
the theorization of celebrity politics and of celebrity philanthropy as a mode
of cultural citizenship, and the role of fans in the operations of celebrity
philanthropy.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> We
particularly welcome studies of celebrity philanthropy in developing countries,
both to provide a comparative framework for assessing the perceived benefits or
otherwise of celebrity engagement in philanthropic activities, and to balance
the western and Anglophone bias of existing studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Dr Paul
Allatson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Head of
International Studies Program,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Senior
Lecturer in (US) Latino Studies & Spanish Studies, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>University
of Technology Sydney, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>PO Box
123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>email: <a
href="mailto:Paul.Allatson@uts.edu.au">Paul.Allatson@uts.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>tel:
61-2-95142104; fax: 61-2-95141578; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>webpage: <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><a
href="http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/fass/staff/listing/details.cfm?StaffId=2441">http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/fass/staff/listing/details.cfm?StaffId=2441</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Member
Transforming Cultures Research Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Founding
editor and Chair editorial committee: PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary
International Studies: <a
href="http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal">http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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