Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Oakland: University of California Press (2015), xix, 341 pp.
Contains 27 figures, 3 tables, bibliogr. pp. 316-326, index
ISBN 978-0-520-28150-9 (pbk); 978-0-520-96308-5 (ebook)
CC BY
"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." (Publisher description)
I. JUSTICE VERSUS IMPUNITY
1 Setting the Stage: The Justice Cascade and Darfur, 33
2 The Human Rights Field and Amnesty International, 61
3 American Mobilization and the Justice Cascade, 83
II. AID VERSUS JUSTICE: THE HUMANITARIAN FIELD
4 The Humanitarian Aid Field and Doctors Without Borders, 103
5 The Humanitarian Complex and Challenges to the Justice Cascade: The Case of Ireland, 134
III. PEACE VERSUS JUSTICE: THE DIPLOMATIC FIELD
6 Diplomatic Representations of Mass Violence, 157
7 The Diplomatic Field in National Contexts: Deviations from the Master Narrative, 184
IV. MEDIATING COMPETING REPRESENTATIONS: THE JOURNALISTIC FIELD
8 Rules of the Journalistic Game, Autonomy, and the Habitus of Africa Correspondents, 205
9 Patterns of Reporting: Fields, Countries, Ideology, and Gender, 222
10 Conclusions: Fields, the Global versus the National, and Representations of Mass Violence, 265
1 Setting the Stage: The Justice Cascade and Darfur, 33
2 The Human Rights Field and Amnesty International, 61
3 American Mobilization and the Justice Cascade, 83
II. AID VERSUS JUSTICE: THE HUMANITARIAN FIELD
4 The Humanitarian Aid Field and Doctors Without Borders, 103
5 The Humanitarian Complex and Challenges to the Justice Cascade: The Case of Ireland, 134
III. PEACE VERSUS JUSTICE: THE DIPLOMATIC FIELD
6 Diplomatic Representations of Mass Violence, 157
7 The Diplomatic Field in National Contexts: Deviations from the Master Narrative, 184
IV. MEDIATING COMPETING REPRESENTATIONS: THE JOURNALISTIC FIELD
8 Rules of the Journalistic Game, Autonomy, and the Habitus of Africa Correspondents, 205
9 Patterns of Reporting: Fields, Countries, Ideology, and Gender, 222
10 Conclusions: Fields, the Global versus the National, and Representations of Mass Violence, 265
