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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Open Access e-BooksPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xix, 341 pages) : illustrations (some color), color mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0520963083
  • 9780520963085
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representing mass violence.DDC classification:
  • 962.404/3 23
LOC classification:
  • DT159.6.D27 S2548 2015
Online resources:
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.
Summary: How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images 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 more than 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 Violencecontributes to our understanding of how the world acknowledges and responds to violence in the Global South.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-326) and index.

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.

How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images 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 more than 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 Violencecontributes to our understanding of how the world acknowledges and responds to violence in the Global South.

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