Humanitarianism and Media

Johannes Paulmann is Director of the Leibniz Institute of European History at Mainz (Germany). He was Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow 2014-15 at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and he edited Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid in the Twentieth Century (2016).

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Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History

Johannes Paulmann



PART I: HUMANITARIAN IMAGERY



Chapter 1. Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Katharina Stornig



Chapter 2. “Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors”: Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War

Rose Holmes



Chapter 3. Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921–1965

     Appendix I: List of ICRC Films, 1921–1965 (Original Titles)

     Appendix II: ICRC ‘Humanitarion’ Films, by Director/Cameraman

Daniel Palmieri



Chapter 4. “People Who Once were Human Beings Like You and Me”: Why Allied Atrocity Films of Liberated Nazi Concentration Camps in 1944–46 Maximized the Horror and Universalized the Victims

Ulrike Weckel



Chapter 5. The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945–1947

Paul Betts



Chapter 6. The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945

Tobias Weidner



PART II: HUMANITARIAN MEDIA REGIMES



Chapter 7. On Fishing in Other People's Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising, and the Ethics of NGO Publicity

Heike Wieters



Chapter 8. Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s

Valérie Gorin



Chapter 9. Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Work of Liberation

Ilana Feldman



Chapter 10. Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany

Patrick Merziger



Chapter 11. NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism, and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the “Ethiopian Famine”

Matthias Kuhnert



Chapter 12. The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action

Maria Kyriakidou



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