Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 247-268, index
ISBN 978-0-230-35887-4 (ebook)
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: background and scope of human rights journalism, 1
PART I. HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS: CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
2 Human rights journalism: a conceptual framework, 25
3 Critical comparative analyses of human rights journalism and peace journalism, global journalism and human rights reporting, 43
4 Public, citizen and peace journalisms: towards the more radical human rights journalism strand, 61
5 The dynamics and challenges of reporting humanitarian interventions, 82
PART II. HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND THE REPRESENTING OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
6 The 'us only' and 'us+them' frames in reporting the Sierra Leone War: implications for human rights journalism, 105
7 'Operation Restore Hope' in Somalia and genocide in Rwanda, 122
8 Politics of humanitarian intervention and human wrongs journalism: the case of Kosovo vs Sierra Leone, 144
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND THE REPRESENTING OF STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL VIOLENCE
9 The Politics of development and global poverty eradication, 165
10 The 2007 EU-Africa Lisbon Summit and 'the Global Partnership for Africa', 181
11 The reporting of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, 202
12 Conclusion: a case for human rights journalism and future directions, 227
Afterword / Jake Lynch, 241
PART I. HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS: CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
2 Human rights journalism: a conceptual framework, 25
3 Critical comparative analyses of human rights journalism and peace journalism, global journalism and human rights reporting, 43
4 Public, citizen and peace journalisms: towards the more radical human rights journalism strand, 61
5 The dynamics and challenges of reporting humanitarian interventions, 82
PART II. HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND THE REPRESENTING OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
6 The 'us only' and 'us+them' frames in reporting the Sierra Leone War: implications for human rights journalism, 105
7 'Operation Restore Hope' in Somalia and genocide in Rwanda, 122
8 Politics of humanitarian intervention and human wrongs journalism: the case of Kosovo vs Sierra Leone, 144
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND THE REPRESENTING OF STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL VIOLENCE
9 The Politics of development and global poverty eradication, 165
10 The 2007 EU-Africa Lisbon Summit and 'the Global Partnership for Africa', 181
11 The reporting of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, 202
12 Conclusion: a case for human rights journalism and future directions, 227
Afterword / Jake Lynch, 241
