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Representing Mass Violence : Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur / Joachim J. Savelsberg.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520963085
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Questions, Theory, Darfur, Data -- Part One. Justice versus Impunity -- 1. Setting the Stage: The Justice Cascade and Darfur -- 2. The Human Rights Field and Amnesty International -- 3. American Mobilization and the Justice Cascade -- Part Two. Aid versus Justice: The Humanitarian Field -- 4. The Humanitarian Aid Field and Doctors Without Borders -- 5. The Humanitarian Complex and Challenges to the Justice Cascade: The Case of Ireland -- Part Three. Peace versus Justice: The Diplomatic Field -- 6. Diplomatic Representations of Mass Violence -- 7. The Diplomatic Field in National Contexts: Deviations from the Master Narrative -- Part Four. Mediating Competing Representations: The Journalistic Field -- 8. Rules of the Journalistic Game, Autonomy, and the Habitus of Africa Correspondents -- 9. Patterns of Reporting: Fields, Countries, Ideology, and Gender -- 10. Conclusions: Fields, the Global versus the National, and Representations of Mass Violence -- Postscript -- Appendix A. Photo Credits and Copyright Information -- Appendix B. Interview Guidelines -- Appendix C. Code Book Explanations -- Notes -- References -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: UC Press eBook-Package 2014-2015Summary: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Questions, Theory, Darfur, Data -- Part One. Justice versus Impunity -- 1. Setting the Stage: The Justice Cascade and Darfur -- 2. The Human Rights Field and Amnesty International -- 3. American Mobilization and the Justice Cascade -- Part Two. Aid versus Justice: The Humanitarian Field -- 4. The Humanitarian Aid Field and Doctors Without Borders -- 5. The Humanitarian Complex and Challenges to the Justice Cascade: The Case of Ireland -- Part Three. Peace versus Justice: The Diplomatic Field -- 6. Diplomatic Representations of Mass Violence -- 7. The Diplomatic Field in National Contexts: Deviations from the Master Narrative -- Part Four. Mediating Competing Representations: The Journalistic Field -- 8. Rules of the Journalistic Game, Autonomy, and the Habitus of Africa Correspondents -- 9. Patterns of Reporting: Fields, Countries, Ideology, and Gender -- 10. Conclusions: Fields, the Global versus the National, and Representations of Mass Violence -- Postscript -- Appendix A. Photo Credits and Copyright Information -- Appendix B. Interview Guidelines -- Appendix C. Code Book Explanations -- Notes -- References -- Index

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.

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