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Author: Keith Tester
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0271037350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An examination of humanitarianism in Western society. Argues that humanitarianism has become a staple part of modern media and celebrity culture."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Michael Lawrence
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-01-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1526117304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This collection interrogates the representation of humanitarian crisis, catastrophe and care. Contributors explore the refraction of humanitarian intervention from the mid-twentieth century to the present across a diverse range of media forms, including screen media (film, television and online video), newspapers, memoirs, music festivals and social media platforms (notably Facebook, YouTube and Flickr). Examining the historical, cultural and political contexts that have shaped the mediation of humanitarian relationships since the middle of the twentieth century, the book reveals significant synergies between the humanitarian enterprise – the endeavour to alleviate the suffering of particular groups – and its media representations, particularly in their modes of addressing and appealing to specific publics.
Author: Johannes Paulmann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2018-12-17
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1785339621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and aid have been constructed in a period of evolving mass communication, demonstrating the extent to which many seemingly new phenomena in fact have long historical legacies. Ultimately, the critical histories collected here help to challenge existing asymmetries and help those who advocate a new cosmopolitan consciousness recognizing the dignity and rights of others.
Author: Keith Tester
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-04-28
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0271050454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt seems paradoxical that in the West the predominant mode of expressing concern about suffering in the Third World comes through participation in various forms of popular culture—such as buying tickets to a rock concert like Live Aid in 1985—rather than through political action based on expert knowledge. Keith Tester’s aim in this book is to explore the phenomenon of what he calls “commonsense humanitarianism,” the reasons for its hegemony as the principal way for people in the West to relate to distant suffering, and its ramifications for our moral and social lives. As a remnant of the West’s past imperial legacy, this phenomenon is most clearly manifested in humanitarian activities directed at Africa, and that continent is the geographical focus of this critical sociology of humanitarianism, which places the role of the media at the center of its analysis.
Author: Bruno Cabanes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 110702062X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
Author: Norbert Götz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1108493521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Author: Keith David Watenpaugh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0520279301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBread from Stones, a highly anticipated book from historian Keith David Watenpaugh, breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of modern humanitarianism. Genocide and mass violence, human trafficking, and the forced displacement of millions in the early twentieth century Eastern Mediterranean form the background for this exploration of humanitarianismÕs role in the history of human rights. WatenpaughÕs unique and provocative examination of humanitarian thought and action from a non-Western perspective goes beyond canonical descriptions of relief work and development projects. Employing a wide range of source materialsÑliterary and artistic responses to violence, memoirs, and first-person accounts from victims, perpetrators, relief workers, and diplomatsÑWatenpaugh argues that the international answer to the inhumanity of World War I in the Middle East laid the foundation for modern humanitarianism and the specific ways humanitarian groups and international organizations help victims of war, care for trafficked children, and aid refugees.Ê Bread from Stones is required reading for those interested in humanitarianism and its ideological, institutional, and legal origins, as well as the evolution of the movement following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the advent of late colonialism in the Middle East.
Author: Didier Fassin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0520271165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies primarily France with shorter sections on South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine.
Author: Michael N. Barnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1108836798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.
Author: Lilie Chouliaraki
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-08-26
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0745664334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER 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 world outside ourselves. By showing historical change in Amnesty International and Oxfam appeals, in the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, in the advocacy of Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie as well as in earthquake news on the BBC, this far-reaching book shows how solidarity has today come to be not about conviction but choice, not vision but lifestyle, not others but ourselves – turning us into the ironic spectators of other people’s suffering.
