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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Johannes Paulmann is Director of the Leibniz Institute of European History at Mainz (Germany). He was Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow 2014-15 at St Antony's College, Oxford, and he edited Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid in the Twentieth Century (2016).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History Johannes Paulmann PART I: HUMANITARIAN IMAGERY Chapter 1. Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Katharina Stornig Chapter 2. "Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors": Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War Rose Holmes Chapter 3. Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921-1965 Appendix I: List of ICRC Films, 1921-1965 (Original Titles) Appendix II: ICRC 'Humanitarion' Films, by Director/Cameraman Daniel Palmieri Chapter 4. "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 Chapter 5. The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 Paul Betts Chapter 6. The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 Tobias Weidner PART II: HUMANITARIAN MEDIA REGIMES Chapter 7. On Fishing in Other People's Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising, and the Ethics of NGO Publicity Heike Wieters Chapter 8. Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s Valérie Gorin Chapter 9. Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Work of Liberation Ilana Feldman Chapter 10. Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany Patrick Merziger Chapter 11. NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism, and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the "Ethiopian Famine" Matthias Kuhnert Chapter 12. The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action Maria Kyriakidou Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History Johannes Paulmann PART I: HUMANITARIAN IMAGERY Chapter 1. Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Katharina Stornig Chapter 2. "Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors": Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War Rose Holmes Chapter 3. Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921-1965 Appendix I: List of ICRC Films, 1921-1965 (Original Titles) Appendix II: ICRC 'Humanitarion' Films, by Director/Cameraman Daniel Palmieri Chapter 4. "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 Chapter 5. The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 Paul Betts Chapter 6. The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 Tobias Weidner PART II: HUMANITARIAN MEDIA REGIMES Chapter 7. On Fishing in Other People's Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising, and the Ethics of NGO Publicity Heike Wieters Chapter 8. Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s Valérie Gorin Chapter 9. Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Work of Liberation Ilana Feldman Chapter 10. Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany Patrick Merziger Chapter 11. NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism, and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the "Ethiopian Famine" Matthias Kuhnert Chapter 12. The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action Maria Kyriakidou Index
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