Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism Journal Article uri icon

Overview

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.

publication date

  • June 2, 2017

has restriction

  • gold

Date in CU Experts

  • January 2, 2018 1:14 AM

Full Author List

  • Fluri J

author count

  • 1

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Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 2076-0787

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 36

end page

  • 36

volume

  • 6

issue

  • 2