Beauty Diplomacy : Embodying an Emerging Nation / Oluwakemi M. Balogun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balogun, Oluwakemi M., Author.

Series:

Globalization in Everyday Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty contests--Political aspects--Nigeria.

Beauty contests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

1 THE NIGERIAN FACTOR

2 SNAPSHOTS OF NIGERIAN PAGEANTRY

3 THE MAKING OF BEAUTY DIPLOMATS

4 MISS CULTURE AND MISS COSMOPOLITAN

5 THE BUSINESS OF BEAUTY

6 AS MISS WORLD TURNS

7 AFTER THE SPOTLIGHT

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503610989

1503610985

OCLC:

1131684453