Human Rights Journalism
Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions
Table of contents
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Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism
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Human Rights Journalism and Alternative Models: Critical Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives
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Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Physical Violence
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Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Structural and Cultural Violence
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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