Humanitarianism & media : 1900 to the present / edited by Johannes Paulmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulmann, Johannes

Contributor:

Paulmann, Johannes, editor.

Series:

New German historical perspectives ; Volume 9.

New german historical perspectives ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarianism.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-762-2

1-78785-866-9

1-78533-962-1

OCLC:

1347246639