Beauty Diplomacy

Embodying an Emerging Nation

Oluwakemi M. Balogun (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2020
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0885-6 (ISBN)

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Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertainment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on four case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria's changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.

Oluwakemi M. Balogun is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Oregon.

1. The Nigerian Factor

2. Snapshots of Nigerian Pageantry

3. The Making of Beauty Diplomats

4. Miss Cultural and Miss Cosmopolitan

5. The Business of Beauty

6. As Miss World Turns

7. After the Spotlight

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Globalization in Everyday Life
Zusatzinfo	13 halftones, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5036-0885-9 / 1503608859
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0885-6 / 9781503608856
Zustand	Neuware