Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
Contains index
Series: New German Historical Perspectives, 9
ISBN 978-1-78533-961-5 (hbk); 978-1-78533-962-2 (pdf)
"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." (Publisher description)
Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History / Johannes Paulmann, 1
I. HUMANITARIAN IMAGERY
1 Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Katharina Stornig, 41
2 "Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors": Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War / Rose Holmes, 67
3 Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921-1965 [Appendix: ICRC 'Humanitarian' Films] / Daniel Palmieri, 90
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 / Ulrike Weckel, 107
5 The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 / Paul Betts, 126
6 The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 / Tobias Weidner, 151
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 / Heike Wieters, 185
8 Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s / Valérie Gorin, 201
9 Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Work of Liberation / Ilana Feldman, 222
10 Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany / Patrick Merziger, 240
11 NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism, and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the "Ethiopian Famine" / Matthias Kuhnert, 263
12 The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action / Maria Kyriakidou, 281
I. HUMANITARIAN IMAGERY
1 Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Katharina Stornig, 41
2 "Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors": Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War / Rose Holmes, 67
3 Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921-1965 [Appendix: ICRC 'Humanitarian' Films] / Daniel Palmieri, 90
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 / Ulrike Weckel, 107
5 The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 / Paul Betts, 126
6 The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 / Tobias Weidner, 151
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 / Heike Wieters, 185
8 Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s / Valérie Gorin, 201
9 Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Work of Liberation / Ilana Feldman, 222
10 Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany / Patrick Merziger, 240
11 NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism, and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the "Ethiopian Famine" / Matthias Kuhnert, 263
12 The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action / Maria Kyriakidou, 281
