Riina Yrjölä
List of John Benjamins publications in which Riina Yrjölä is involved.
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2011 Chapter 9. Visual politics and celebrity humanitarianism: How colonial culture is revitalised in the West Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 199–224 | Article
This chapter turns towards the aesthetics of contemporary celebrity humanitarian action and examines critically the imaginaries Bob Geldof’s and Bono’s representations open towards Africa. I argue that despite their intention to bring about economic changes for Africa, the spatio-temporality of… read more
