UPC: 9780190606855 | Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing Corporate Influence and Breast Cancer Policymaking (Paperback)
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As late as the 1980s breast cancer was a stigmatized disease so much so that local reporters avoided using the word breast in their stories and early breast cancer organizations steered clear of it in their names. But activists with business backgrounds began to partner with corporations for sponsored runs and cause-marketing products from which a portion of the proceeds would benefit breast cancer research. Branding breast cancer as pink –hopeful positive uncontroversial–on the products Americans see every day these activists and corporations generated a pervasive understanding of breast cancer that is widely shared by the public and embraced by policymakers. Clearly they have been successful: today more Americans know that the pink ribbon is the symbol of breast cancer than know the name of the vice president. Hiding Politics in Plain Sight examines the costs of employing market mechanisms–especially cause marketing–as a strategy for change. Patricia Strach suggests that market mechanisms do more than raise awareness of issues or money to support charities: they also affect politics. She shows that market mechanisms like corporate-sponsored walks or cause-marketing shift issue definition away from the contentious processes in the political sphere to the market where advertising campaigns portray complex issues along a single dimension with a simple solution: breast cancer research will find a cure and Americans can participate easily by purchasing specially-marked products. This market competition privileges even more specialized actors with connections to business. As well cooperative market activism fundamentally alters the public sphere by importing processes values and biases of market-based action into politics. Market activism does not just bring social concerns into market transactions it also brings market biases into public policymaking which is inherently undemocratic. As a result industry and key activists work cooperatively rather than contentiously and they define issues as consensual rather than controversial essentially hiding politics in plain sight.
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