Reporting human rights, conflicts, and peacebuilding: critical and global perspectives
Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2019), xxi, 280 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-10718-5 (hbk); 978-3-030-10719-2 (ebook)
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It also provides critical reflections on the challenges faced by journalists and explores the implications of constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in their day-to-day professional activities." (Publisher)
Contents
Introduction: Reporting human rights, conflicts, and peacebuilding: critical and global perspectives / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Senthan Selvarajah, 1
MEDIA, CONFLICTS AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS
Human rights journalism: towards a critical constructivist epistemological approach / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and Senthan Selvarajah, 13
Advocacy journalism, the politics of humanitarian intervention and the Syrian war / Philip Hammond, Sumaya Al Nahed, and Tara McCormack, 31
Beyond "bearing witness": journalists resisting violence in Colombia's "after war" / Mathew Charles, 49
Re-designing the media in humanitarian interventions communicating with communities at times of crisis / Valentina Baú, 67
MEDIATING HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM
Public service broadcasting and security issues: the case of 'blowback' / Jake Lynch, 85
Communitarianism, ethics and the burden of journalistic objectivity: reflections of "peace journalists" covering the Boko Haram insurgency / Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, 103
The politics of representation of migrants in Italian media / Sara Gabai, 119
Assessment of media coverage of human rights abuses in internally displaced peoples' camps / Olusola O. Isola and Toba Yusuf, 137
HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING: CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACEBUILDING
Understanding and practising human rights journalism in China / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and Di Luo, 155
Unworthy victims? The media, politics and the search for justice through the International Criminal Court in Kenya / Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 169
The media, conflict and peace during transitional times: the case of The Herald and the NewsDay during the period of the Zimbabwe Government of National Unity (GNU) 2009-2014 / Georgina Sabawu and Octavious Chido Masunda, 187
THE CHALLENGES OF REPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONFLICTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Re-imagining human rights photography: Ariella Azoulay's intervention / Anna Gormley and Stuart Allan, 203
Journalists as human rights defenders: international protection of journalists in contexts of violence and impunity / Tamsin Mitchell, 221
Together and separate? An exploratory study of political polarization on social media during the 2016 Brazilian political crisis / Patricia Ferreira Alves and Bruce Mutsvairo, 243
Exiled journalists as active agents of change: understanding their journalistic practices / Nirmanusan Balasundaram, 265
MEDIA, CONFLICTS AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS
Human rights journalism: towards a critical constructivist epistemological approach / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and Senthan Selvarajah, 13
Advocacy journalism, the politics of humanitarian intervention and the Syrian war / Philip Hammond, Sumaya Al Nahed, and Tara McCormack, 31
Beyond "bearing witness": journalists resisting violence in Colombia's "after war" / Mathew Charles, 49
Re-designing the media in humanitarian interventions communicating with communities at times of crisis / Valentina Baú, 67
MEDIATING HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM
Public service broadcasting and security issues: the case of 'blowback' / Jake Lynch, 85
Communitarianism, ethics and the burden of journalistic objectivity: reflections of "peace journalists" covering the Boko Haram insurgency / Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, 103
The politics of representation of migrants in Italian media / Sara Gabai, 119
Assessment of media coverage of human rights abuses in internally displaced peoples' camps / Olusola O. Isola and Toba Yusuf, 137
HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING: CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACEBUILDING
Understanding and practising human rights journalism in China / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and Di Luo, 155
Unworthy victims? The media, politics and the search for justice through the International Criminal Court in Kenya / Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 169
The media, conflict and peace during transitional times: the case of The Herald and the NewsDay during the period of the Zimbabwe Government of National Unity (GNU) 2009-2014 / Georgina Sabawu and Octavious Chido Masunda, 187
THE CHALLENGES OF REPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONFLICTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Re-imagining human rights photography: Ariella Azoulay's intervention / Anna Gormley and Stuart Allan, 203
Journalists as human rights defenders: international protection of journalists in contexts of violence and impunity / Tamsin Mitchell, 221
Together and separate? An exploratory study of political polarization on social media during the 2016 Brazilian political crisis / Patricia Ferreira Alves and Bruce Mutsvairo, 243
Exiled journalists as active agents of change: understanding their journalistic practices / Nirmanusan Balasundaram, 265
