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Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2021), xiii, 271 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 235-257

ISBN 978-0-262542531

CC BY-NC-ND

Other editions: University of Pennsylvania, Doctoral Thesis 2016

"Visual imagery is at the heart of humanitarian and human rights activism, and video has become a key tool in these efforts. The Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the Green Movement in Iran, and Black Lives Matter in the United States have all used video to expose injustice. In Seeing Human Rights, Sandra Ristovska examines how human rights organizations are seeking to professionalize video activism through video production, verification standards, and training. The result, she argues, is a proxy profession that uses human rights videos to tap into journalism, the law, and political advocacy." (Publisher description)
1 Seeing Human Rights: Institutions, Agents, and Practices, 1
2 The Salience of Video as a Human Rights Tool, 23
3 Human Rights Video in Journalism, 51
4 Human Rights Video in Court, 95
5 Human Rights Video in Political Advocacy, 141
6 The Proxy Profession and the Power of Human Rights Voices, 177