Representing Mass Violence Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur

"How do UN Security Council and International Criminal Court interventions, both part of the Justice Cascade, color representations of mass violence? What images of suffering and of responsible actors arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2015
Oakland, California : [2015]
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426992006719
Table of 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.