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Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
Deep Insights
Milton: Routledge (2022), 486 pp.
"Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopoli
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Beyond Verification: Flesh Witnessing and the Significance of Embodiment in Conflict News
Journalism, volume 23, issue 3 (2022), pp. 649-667
"While the field of Journalism Studies has already engaged in rich debates on how to rethink the truth conditions of user-generated content (UGC) in platform journalism, we argue that it has missed out on the ethico-political function of UGC as testimonials of lives-at-risk. If we wish to recognize
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Post-humanitarianism: Humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 13, issue 3 (2010), pp. 107-126
"This article offers a trajectory of humanitarian communication, which suggests a clear, though not linear, move from emotion-oriented to post-emotional styles of appealing. Drawing on empirical examples, the article demonstrates that the humanitarian sensibility that arises out of these emerging st
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The Spectatorship of Suffering
London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi: Sage (2006), 237 pp.
"This book is about the relationship between the spectators in countries of the west, and the distant sufferer on the television screen; the sufferer in Somalia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, but also from New York and Washington, DC. How do we relate to television images of the distant suf
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