Disasters, Relief and the Media - Couverture souple

Benthall, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955640075 ISBN 13 : 9780955640070

Editeur : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The mass media have immense power, in their reporting of disasters, both natural and man-made, to stir the consciences of prosperous Westerners as well as to manipulate the perception of poverty and deprivation for political ends. For the relief agencies, the media present both unparalleled opportunities to raise money and acute ethical dilemmas when fund-raising priorities, developmental strategies and educational values conflict. In 1993, this was the first book-length study of the representation of disasters in the media and of the marketing methods used by major relief agencies. In the preface to this new paperback edition which reviews the major developments in aid and in the media since the early 1990s, Jonathan Benthall contests the view of some commentators that the emergence of new technologies, the Internet and the cellphone, has radically changed the balance of power between the aid system and afflicted populations. He develops his original theme to argue that a stable system is in place, whereby representations of misery in the South are exported to the North as consumables which are continuously reciprocated by flows of humanitarian aid. When the allotted role of Third World victimhood is repudiated, for instance by migrant workers, the North sets up stern political barriers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Benthall is co-author of The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World, and was formerly Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Editor of Anthropology Today.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955640075
• ISBN 13: 9780955640070
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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