Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-HumanitarianismWINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They tell us something about the ways in which we imagine the