Representing mass violence : conflicting responses to human rights violations in Darfur / Joachim J. Savelsberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Sudan--Dārfūr al-Janūbīyah (Province)--Public opinion.

Violence.

Violence--Press coverage--Sudan--Dārfūr al-Janūbīyah (Province).

Violence--Press coverage.

History.

Press coverage.

Human rights--Press coverage.

Human rights.

Public opinion.

Sudan--Dārfūr al-Janūbīyah (Province).

Human rights--Sudan--Dārfūr al-Janūbīyah (Province)--Public opinion.

Human rights--Press coverage--Sudan--Dārfūr al-Janūbīyah (Province).

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003---Foreign public opinion.

Sudan.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003---Press coverage.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003---Mass media and the conflict.

Physical Description:

xix, 341 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Summary:

"How do UN Security Council and International Criminal Court interventions, both part of the Justice Cascade, color representations of mass violence? What images of suffering and of responsible actors arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the case of Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg analyzes over three thousand news reports and opinion pieces and interviews leading newspaper correspondents, NGO experts, and foreign ministry officials from eight countries to show the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence around the world and across social fields. Representing Mass Violence contributes to our understanding of how the world acknowledges and responds to violence in the Global South"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : questions, theory, Darfur, data

Setting the stage : Justice Cascade and Darfur

The human rights field and Amnesty International

American mobilization and the Justice Cascade

The humanitarian aid field and Doctors without Borders

The humanitarian complex and challenges to the justice : the case of Ireland

Diplomatic representations of mass violence

Diplomatic field in national contexts : deviations from the master narrative

Mediating competing representations : the journalistic field

Rules of the journalistic game, autonomy and the habitus of Africa correspondents

Patterns of reporting : fields, countries, ideology and gender

Conclusions : fields, the global versus the national and representations of mass violence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-326) and index.

ISBN:

9780520281509

0520281500

OCLC:

908699024