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- Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
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- 2015
- Published by: University of California Press
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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 Violence contributes to our understanding of how the world acknowledges and responds to violence in the Global South.
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 Violence contributes to our understanding of how the world acknowledges and responds to violence in the Global South.
Table of Contents


- Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Abbreviations
- pp. xvii-xx
- Part One. Justice versus Impunity
- Part Two. Aid versus Justice: The Humanitarian Field
- Part Three. Peace versus Justice: The Diplomatic Field
- Part Four. Mediating Competing Representations: The Journalistic Field
- Postscript
- pp. 283-286
- Appendix B. Interview Guidelines
- pp. 290-292
- Appendix C. Code Book Explanations
- pp. 293-303
- References
- pp. 316-326
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520963085
Related ISBN(s)
9780520281509
MARC Record
OCLC
1104606500
Pages
362
Launched on MUSE
2019-06-15
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY