Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame - Softcover

Jennifer Adese (editor) & Robert Alexander Innes (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887559069 ISBN 13: 9780887559068

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2021

Synopsis

Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people's entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of 'Indigenous' and 'celebrity' and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture's impact on Indigenous people. Indigenous people who willingly engage with celebrity culture, or are drawn up into it, enter into a complex terrain of social relations informed by layered dimensions of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and classism. Yet this reductive framing of celebrity does not account for the ways that Indigenous people's own worldviews inform Indigenous engagement with celebrity culture-or rather, popular social and cultural forms of recognition.

Indigenous Celebrity reorients conversations on Indigenous celebrity towards understanding how Indigenous people draw from nation-specific processes of respect and recognition while at the same time navigating external assumptions and expectations. This collection examines the relationship of Indigenous people to the concept of celebrity in past, present, and ongoing contexts, identifying commonalities, tensions, and possibilities.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Adese is otipemisiwak/Métis and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). Her research focuses on Indigenous political and cultural representation, most recently on Métis women's political representation and activism.

Robert Alexander Innes is a member of Cowessess First Nation and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Elder Brother and the Law of the People and co-editor, with Kim Anderson, of Indigenous Men and Masculinities.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887559069
• ISBN 13: 9780887559068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272