"Este libro es resultado del proyecto "Acercandonos a las realidades socioculturales, luchas y resistencias de las comunidades indigenas de America Latina", realizado por el InCom-UAB durante el curso 2015-2016 gracias a la financiacion de la Fundacio Autonoma Solidaria (FAS-UAB) y el apoyo de la Ca...tedra Unesco de Comunicacion (InCom-UAB). El principal objetivo de esta iniciativa fue dar a conocer a la comunidad universitaria las realidades y cosmovisiones de los pueblos originarios desde una perspectiva critica, asi como crear espacios de debate e interaccion entre equipos de investigacion especializados. Las desigualdades globales, los derechos humanos, el genero, el medio ambiente y las aportaciones a la sociedad mayoritaria fueron los principales ejes de discusion." (Prólogo)
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"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents... such as William Howard Russell, Morgan Philips Price, Martha Gellhorn, Wilfred Burchett, John Pilger and Robert Fisk. Their work seems to bear testament to the ideal beloved of all journalists and writers, of ‘telling truth to power’. But as Arundhati Roy has argued, ‘Power owns the truth [and] knows the truth just as well if not better than the powerless know the truth’ (2004, p. 68). In view of everything that has gone before in this book, I think she is right. Telling truth to power does not change or lessen the risks and dangers that accompany the journalist in the war zone. And as we have seen, the risks are not equal; the level of special training, protection and institutional support journalists receive depends on the size and wealth of their media employer." (Conclusion, p.214)
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