Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in DarfurA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images 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 more than 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. |
Contents
Justice Cascade and Darfur | 33 |
The Human Rights Field and Amnesty International | 61 |
American Mobilization and the Justice Cascade | 83 |
The Humanitarian Aid Field and Doctors Without Borders | 103 |
The Humanitarian Complex and Challenges to the Justice | 134 |
Diplomatic Representations of Mass Violence | 157 |
Deviations | 184 |
part four mediating competing | 203 |
Common terms and phrases
Abuja Africa correspondents American Amnesty International analysis author’s translation Bourdieu carrier groups Chad chapter cited civil society collective memory countries country’s crime frame crimes against humanity criminal justice criminal law Darfur conflict depicted diplomacy diplomatic field displacements especially example focus forces foreign ministry foreign policy genocide German global goals government of Sudan Holocaust human rights field humanitarian aid humanitarian emergency humanitarian field ICID INGOs International Criminal Court interventions interviewee Ireland Irish Aid issues Janjawiid journalism journalistic journalistic field justice cascade Khartoum killings last retrieved mass violence media reporting ment military narrative national contexts negotiations newspapers NGOs Omar al-Bashir opinion pieces patterns peace perpetrators political position rape referred refugee reporting about Darfur representation of Darfur representation of mass role Rome Statute Rwandan genocide Save Darfur Savelsberg and King sections Sikkink social specific suffering tion UNAMID UNSC victims violence in Darfur