Human Rights Journalism

Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

  • Authors
  • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism

    1. Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 1-21

  3. Human Rights Journalism and Alternative Models: Critical Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-24
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    2. Human Rights Journalism: A Critical Conceptual Framework
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 25-42
    3. Critical Comparative Analyses of Human Rights Journalism, Peace Journalism, Global Journalism and Human Rights Reporting
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 43-60
    4. Citizen, Public and Peace Journalisms: Towards the More Radical Human Rights Journalism Strand
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 61-81
    5. The Dynamics and Challenges of Reporting Humanitarian Interventions
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 82-102

  4. Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Physical Violence

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 103-103
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    2. The ‘us only’ and ‘us + them’ Frames in Reporting the Sierra Leone War: Implications for Human Rights Journalism
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 105-121
    3. ‘Operation Restore Hope’ in Somalia and Genocide in Rwanda
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 122-143
    4. The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention and Human Wrongs Journalism: The Case of Kosovo versus Sierra Leone
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 144-162

  5. Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Structural and Cultural Violence

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 163-164
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    2. The Politics of Development and Global Poverty Eradication
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 165-180
    3. The EU-Africa Lisbon Summit and ‘the Global Partnership for Africa’
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 181-201
    4. Reporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK: The Myths and the Facts
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 202-226
    5. Conclusion: A Case for Human Rights Journalism and Future Directions
      Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 227-240
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 241-281
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About this book

Introduction

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention.

Keywords

human rights intervention journalism politics poverty violence

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358874
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-34041-5
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-35887-4
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