Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication (Routledge International Handbooks)

The __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 emerging field as an important site of interdisciplinary knowledge production on media, communication and humanitarianism. As such, the __Handbook__ is not simply a collection of texts sharing a similar theme. It is a coherent intellectual contribution which systematizes current critical scholarship in terms of Domains, Methods and Issues and sets an agenda of emerging and evolving research priorities in the field. Consisting of 26 chapters written by international scholars, who have contributed to laying the foundation of the field, this volume provides an essential guide to the key ideas, issues, concepts and debates of humanitarian communication. The Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research within the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of figures 9 List of tables 11 Contributors 12 Introduction: Humanitarian communication in the 21st century 18 PART I: Domains 40 1. Disaster Aid 42 2. Development 56 3. Human Rights 71 4. Digital War 83 PART II: Methods 104 5. The audience of humanitarian communication 106 6. Text-analytical approaches to humanitarian communication 121 7. Production-centred approaches to humanitarian communication 136 8. Ethnography in humanitarian communication 153 PART III: Issues 168 Politics 168 9. The logic of projects in humanitarian relief 170 10. Micromapping: Digital humanitarianism and disaster relief 188 11. Technocolonialism: Digital innovation and data practices in the humanitarian response to refugee crises 202 12. The politics of humanitarian journalism 220 13. Forgotten conflicts: Journalists and the humanitarian imaginary 237 14. Human rights protests and mediated violence 252 Economics 268 15. Celebrity advocacy 270 16. Humanitarianism and corporate branding: The case of Brand Aid 283 17. Humanitarianism in the African luxury designer market 302 18. Corporate social responsibility and the humanitarian civic imaginary 317 19. Volunteer tourism as humanitarian communication 332 20. Humanitarianism and microfinance 348 Histories and Futures 366 21. Humanitarian Imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity 368 22. Photography and humanitarian intervention: The early years, 1850–1914 390 23. Silence heals: MSF from the Cold War to the war on terror 412 24. Humanitarianism and fiction. Capitalism, commodities and jobs 427 25. Post-humanitarianism: Solidarity as lifestyle politics 438 26. Data witnessing: Amnesty International’s Decoders project 453 Index 474 Humanitarian;,Communication;,Handbook;,Lilie,Chouliaraki;,Anne,Vestergaard;,Disasters;,Emergency;,Development;,Human,Rights;,Conflict;,Audience;,multimodal,analysis;,Ethics;,Suffering;,Mediation;,Human,Atrocity;,global,community;,Technologies;,myths;,Military,practices;,humanitarian,intervention;,Celebrity,Advocacy;,Entrepreneurship;,politics;,Corporate,Social,Responsibility;,Humanitarian,Civic,Imaginary;,Amnesty,Challenges;,Global,Governance;,War,Studies Humanitarian,Communication,Handbook,Lilie Chouliaraki,Anne Vestergaard,Disasters,Emergency,Development,Human Rights,Conflict,Audience,multimodal analysis,Ethics,Suffering,Mediation,Human Atrocity,global community,Technologies,myths,Military practices,humanitarian intervention,Celebrity Advocacy,Entrepreneurship,politics,Corporate Social Responsibility,Humanitarian Civic Imaginary,Amnesty Challenges,Global Governance,War Studies