Description
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research in the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. It is broadly focused on communication that presents human vulnerability as a cause for public concern and encompasses communication with respect to humanitarian aid and development as well as human rights and humanitarian wars.
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 cosmopolitan solidarity. The Handbook brings into dialogue these diverse fields, their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches as well as the public debates that lie at the heart of the contemporary politics of humanitarianism. It consolidates existing knowledge and maps out this e
Table of Contents
Introduction: Humanitarian Communication in the 21st Century PART I: DOMAINS 1. Disaster Aid as a Domain of Media and Humanitarian Politics 2. Development and its Narratives 3. Human Rights, Culture and Media 4. Media and Compassion in Digital War PART II: METHODS 5. The Audience of Humanitarian Communication 6. Text-analytical Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 7. Production-centered Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 8. Ethnography in Humanitarian Communication: Descending into the Lifeworlds of Witnessing and Wounded Subjects PART III: ISSUES Politics 9. The Logic of Projects in Humanitarian Relief 10. Micro-mapping: Digital Humanitarianism and the Politics of Material Participation in Disaster Relief 11. Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises 12. The Politics of Humanitarian Journalism 13. Conflicted Witnesses: Journalists and the Humanitarian Imaginary 14. Human Rights Protests and Mediated Violence Economy 15. Celebrity Advocacy 16. Brand Aid: Humanitarianism in Corporate Communication 17. Humanitarianism in the African Luxury Designer Market 18. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Humanitarian Civic Imaginary 19. Volunteer Tourism as Humanitarian Communication 20. Humanitarianism and Microfinance Histories and Futures 21. Humanitarian Imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity 22. Photography and Humanitarian Intervention: The Early Years, 1850s–1914 23. MSF: Silence heals. From the Cold War to the War on Terror 24. How Do We Arm the Other Eleven? Humanitarianism, Commodities and Jobs 25. Post-humanitarianism: Solidarity beyond the Politics of Pity 26. Data Witnessing: Attending to Injustice with Data in Amnesty International’s Decoders Project
