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):

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

Human rights.

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

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

Violence.

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

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

Sudan.

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

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 341 pages) : illustrations (some colour), colour map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press 2015

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

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

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.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520963085

0520963083

OCLC:

926981099