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Human Rights Journalism

Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

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  • © 2012

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  1. Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism

    1. Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 1-21

  3. Human Rights Journalism and Alternative Models: Critical Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-24
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    2. Human Rights Journalism: A Critical Conceptual Framework

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 25-42

    3. Critical Comparative Analyses of Human Rights Journalism, Peace Journalism, Global Journalism and Human Rights Reporting

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 43-60

    4. Citizen, Public and Peace Journalisms: Towards the More Radical Human Rights Journalism Strand

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 61-81

    5. The Dynamics and Challenges of Reporting Humanitarian Interventions

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 82-102

  5. Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Structural and Cultural Violence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-164
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    2. The Politics of Development and Global Poverty Eradication

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 165-180

    3. The EU-Africa Lisbon Summit and ‘the Global Partnership for Africa’

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 181-201

    4. Reporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK: The Myths and the Facts

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 202-226

    5. Conclusion: A Case for Human Rights Journalism and Future Directions

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
      Pages 227-240

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 241-281
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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.

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'The perceptive analysis presented on these pages highlights the basis for a radical reconsideration of some of our most familiar assumptions. It does so in a manner alert to journalism's shortcomings but also to its remarkable potential to foster points of emphatic connection at a distance. In this way, Shaw's intervention inspires us to reinvigorate our efforts to develop productive ways forward, to re-imagine new possibilities in the search for compassionate reporting respectful of the human dignity of others.' - Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University, UK

About the author

IBRAHIM SEAGA SHAW is Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria, UK. With a background in journalism spanning 26 years in Sierra Leone, Britain and France, he edited Sierra Leone's award winning Expo Times newspaper in the mid 1990s. He holds a PhD from the Sorbonne and is co-editor of Expanding Peace Journalism (2011).

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