Author : Gregory Kent
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Based on extensive research into the and newspaper framing of the Bosnian war. The issues and questions addressed include the critical use of official sources and propaganda in journalism; how media and policymakers interact to detect and frame problems for policy action; and what factors limit the accurate reporting of war.
Author : Bala A. Musa
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
This work provides needed historical, theoretical and practical insight to recent and current trends in conflict reporting and management. It expands the literature on framing theory in relation to conflict perception, interpretation and management from mass media and policy perspectives.
Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745697526
This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world. Most accounts of war and genocide treat them as separate phenomena. This book thoroughly examines the links between these two most inhuman of human activities. It shows that the generally legitimate business of war and the monstrous crime of genocide are closely related. This is not just because genocide usually occurs in the midst of war, but because genocide is a form of war directed against civilian populations. The book shows how fine the line has been, in modern history, between ‘degenerate war’ involving the mass destruction of civilian populations, and ‘genocide’, the deliberate destruction of civilian groups as such. Written by one of the foremost sociological writers on war, War and Genocide has four main features: an original argument about the meaning and causes of mass killing in the modern world; a guide to the main intellectual resources – military, political and social theories – necessary to understand war and genocide; summaries of the main historical episodes of slaughter, from the trenches of the First World War to the Nazi Holocaust and the killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda; practical guides to further reading, courses and websites. This book examines war and genocide together with their opposites, peace and justice. It looks at them from the standpoint of victims as well as perpetrators. It is an important book for anyone wanting to understand – and overcome – the continuing salience of destructive forces in modern society.
Author : Philip Hammond
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526130912
Since the end of the Cold War there have been many competing ideas about how to explain contemporary conflicts, and about how the West should respond to them. This study examines how the media interpret conflicts and international interventions, testing the sometimes contradictory claims that have been made about recent coverage of war. Framing post-Cold War conflicts takes a comparative approach, examining UK press coverage across six different crises. Through detailed analysis of news content, it seeks to identify the dominant themes in explaining the post-Cold War international order, and to discover how far the patterns established prior to 11 September 2001 have subsequently changed. Based on extensive original research, the book includes case studies of two ‘humanitarian military interventions’ (in Somalia and Kosovo), two instances where Western governments were condemned for not intervening enough (Bosnia and Rwanda), and the post-9/11 interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Author : Melissa Labonte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136170618
The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes, even when they share similar characteristics. In many cases concerned states responded, either through moral suasion; gentle or coercive diplomacy; or other non-forcible measures, to prevent or halt the indiscriminate human rights violations that were occurring. In others, states simply turned away and left the vulnerable to their fate. And still yet in other cases, states responded robustly, using military force to stop the atrocities and save lives. This book seeks to examine the effects of strategic framing in U.S. and UN policy arenas to draw conclusions regarding whether and how the human rights and humanitarian norms embedded within such frames resonated with decision-makers and, in turn, how they shaped variation in levels of political will concerning humanitarian intervention in three cases that today would qualify as Responsibility to Protect (R2P) cases: Somalia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. Labonte concludes that in order for humanitarian interventions to stand a higher likelihood of being effective, states advocating in support of such actions must find a way to persuade policymakers by appealing to both the logic of consequences (which rely on material and pragmatic considerations) and logic of appropriateness (which rely on normatively appropriate considerations) – and strategic framing may be one path to achieve this outcome. Offering a detailed and examination of three key cases and providing some an original and important contribution to the field this work will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0253220777
In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history and around the contemporary world. However, the phenomenon of "genocides by the oppressed," that is, retributive genocidal actions carried out by subaltern actors, has received almost no attention. The prominence in such genocides of non-state actors, combined with the perceived moral ambiguities of retributive genocide that arise in analyzing genocidal acts "from below," have so far eluded serious investigation. Genocides by the Oppressed addresses this oversight, opening the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights. Focusing on case studies of such genocide, the contributors explore its sociological, anthropological, psychological, symbolic, and normative dimensions.
Author : Matilda Mroz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137461667
This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema’s engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman’s confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Łoziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland’s aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.
Author : Nigel Eltringham
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1782380744
The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military odds (Zulu, 1964; Khartoum, 1966) and nature (Mogambo, 1953; Hatari!,1962; Born Free, 1966; The Last Safari, 1967), this new wave of films portrays a continent blighted by transnational corruption (The Constant Gardener, 2005), genocide (Hotel Rwanda, 2004; Shooting Dogs, 2006), ‘failed states’ (Black Hawk Down, 2001), illicit transnational commerce (Blood Diamond, 2006) and the unfulfilled promises of decolonization (The Last King of Scotland, 2006). Conversely, where once Apartheid South Africa was a brutal foil for the romance of East Africa (Cry Freedom, 1987; A Dry White Season, 1989), South Africa now serves as a redeemed contrast to the rest of the continent (Red Dust, 2004; Invictus, 2009). Writing from the perspective of long-term engagement with the contexts in which the films are set, anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination.
Author : Gregory Kent
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN :
Concern about the representation of distant crises in the 1990s has been the subject of a developing literature, focusing on the relationships of the news system and policy formation. The war in Bosnia was probably the most intensely and extensively reported of the decade, said to have affected the public conscience like no other. However, the precise effects of coverage are much disputed and there has been no detailed, systematic analysis of media representation so far against which this possible influence can be assessed. This study presents the results of a systematic examination of British TV news representation of the war. It aims to answer the question:h ow did the British TV news system describe and frame the war in Bosnia? The study tests the hypothesis that British media obfuscated key questions in the war. It is proposed that this may have made effective intervention in support of Bosnia and its people less likely. The main focus of this inquiry is to assess the accuracy of the TV representation of war and genocide in Bosnia, against a detailed historical account of those events. Secondary questions focus on what inferences can be made from the representation about the context of its production, and about its consumption. Through layered combination of several content analytic techniques,T V news( and broadsheet newspaper) reports from a key period of the war (April to August 1992) are used to describe the framing of the war with the aim of reaching conclusion about its accuracy.I n the light of this representations one potential political effects are discussed. The study has one main conclusion. That is that there were key inaccuracies in the reporting in the period under consideration, particularly regarding Serbia's aggressive war and genocide against the people and state of Bosnia. It is argued from this primary finding that these inaccuracies may have had significant implications for the effects of media coverage on policy.
Author : Maria Armoudian
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1616143886
This wide-ranging, insightful book will make readers keenly aware of the media’s power, while underscoring the role that we all play in fostering a media climate that cultivates a greater sense of humanity, cooperation, and fulfillment of human potential. What role do the media have in creating the conditions for atrocities such as occurred in Rwanda? Conversely, can the media be used to preserve democracy and safeguard the human rights of all citizens in a diverse society? How will the media, now global in scope, affect the fate of the planet itself? The author explores these intriguing questions and more in this in-depth examination of the media’s power to either help or harm. She begins by documenting how the media were used to spread a contagion of hate in three deadly conflicts: Rwanda, Nazi Germany, and the former Yugoslavia. She then turns to areas of the world where the media acted constructively—by aiding the peace process in Northern Ireland, rebuilding democracy in Chile, bridging ethnic divides in South Africa, improving the lot of women in Senegal, and boosting transparency and democratization in Mexico and Taiwan. Finally, she explains how the media interact with psychological and cultural forces to impact perceptions, fears, peer-pressure, "groupthink," and the creation of heroes and villains.
