Humanitarianism & media : 1900 to the present /

From 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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paulmann, Johannes (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Colección:New German historical perspectives ; v. 9.
Temas:
Humanitarianism.
Humanitarianism > In mass media.
Mass media.
Médias.
mass media.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Humanitarianism
Mass media
archives.
christian missionaries.
cosmopolitan consciousness.
critical histories.
entangled histories.
existing asymmetries.
historical legacies.
human rights law.
human rights.
human suffering.
humanitarian aid.
humanitarian imagery.
humanitarian.
interdisciplinary collection.
mass communication.
media history.
media manipulation.
media studies.
political.
postcolonialism.
realistic.
religious conversion.
religious zealot.
spanish civil war.
western media.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Humanitarianism and media : introduction to an entangled history / Johannes Paulmann
  • Humanitarian imagery
  • Promoting distant children in need : Christian imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Katharina Stornig
  • "Make the situation real to us without stressing the horrors" : children, photography and humanitarianism in the Spanish civil war / Rose Holmes
  • Humanitarianism on the screen : the ICRC films, 1921-1965 / Daniel Palmieri
  • "People who once were human beings like you and me" : why allied atrocity films of liberated nazi concentration camps in 1944-46 maximized the horror and universalized the victims / Ulrike Weckel
  • The polemics of pity : British photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 / Paul Betts
  • The human gaze : photography after 1945 / Tobias Weidner
  • Humanitarian media regimes
  • On fishing in other peoples ponds : the freedom from hunger campaign, international fundraising, and the ethics of ngo publicity / Heike Wieters
  • Advocacy strategies of western humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s / Valerie Gorin
  • Humanitarianism and revolution : samed, the palestine red crescent society, and the work of liberation / Ilana Feldman
  • Mediatisation of disasters and humanitarian aid in the Federal Republic of Germany / Patrick Merziger
  • NGOs, celebrity humanitarianism, and the media : negotiating conflicting perceptions of aid and development during the "Ethiopian famine" / Matthias Kuhnert
  • The audience of distant suffering and the question of (in)action / Maria Kyriakidou
  • Index.

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