Representing mass violence : : conflicting responses to human rights violations in Darfur / / Joachim J. Savelsberg.

• VerfasserIn: Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 pages) :; illustrations, map

"How do UN Security Council and International Criminal Court interventions, both part of the Justice Cascade, color representations of mass violence? What images of suffering and of responsible actors arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the case of Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg analyzes over three thousand news reports and opinion pieces and interviews leading newspaper correspondents, NGO experts, and foreign ministry officials from eight countries to show the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence around the world and across social fields. Representing Mass Violence contributes to our understanding of how the world acknowledges and responds to violence in the Global South"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : questions, theory, Darfur, data -- Setting the stage : Justice Cascade and Darfur -- The human rights field and Amnesty International -- American mobilization and the Justice Cascade -- The humanitarian aid field and Doctors without Borders -- The humanitarian complex and challenges to the justice : the case of Ireland -- Diplomatic representations of mass violence -- Diplomatic field in national contexts : deviations from the master narrative -- Mediating competing representations : the journalistic field -- Rules of the journalistic game, autonomy and the habitus of Africa correspondents -- Patterns of reporting : fields, countries, ideology and gender -- Conclusions : fields, the global versus the national and representations of mass violence.