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Humanitarianism and Media : 1900 to the Present / ed. by Johannes Paulmann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New German Historical Perspectives ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785339615
  • 9781785339622
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.76 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1475.3 .H857 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History -- Part I Humanitarian Imagery -- 1 Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 2 ‘Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors’ Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War -- 3 Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921–65 -- 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 -- 5 The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945–47 -- 6 The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 -- Part II Humanitarian Media Regimes -- 7 On Fishing in Other People’s Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising and the Ethics of NGO Publicity -- 8 Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s -- 9 Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Work of Liberation -- 10 Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany -- 11 NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the ‘Ethiopian Famine’ -- 12 The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History -- Part I Humanitarian Imagery -- 1 Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 2 ‘Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors’ Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War -- 3 Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921–65 -- 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 -- 5 The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945–47 -- 6 The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 -- Part II Humanitarian Media Regimes -- 7 On Fishing in Other People’s Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising and the Ethics of NGO Publicity -- 8 Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s -- 9 Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Work of Liberation -- 10 Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany -- 11 NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the ‘Ethiopian Famine’ -- 12 The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)

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