Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

Irene Bruna Seu is Reader in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Shani Orgad is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

1. Caring in crisis and the crisis of caring: Towards a new agenda .- 2. Caring in crisis? Public responses to mediated humanitarian knowledge .- 3.Connecting to suffering .- 4. The mediation of caring .- 5. Supporting more people that care to take action for international change: The challenge for humanitarian NGOs .- 6. Caring enterprise in crisis? Challenges and opportunities of humanitarian NGO communications .- 7. Humanitarian communication and its limits .- 8. Communicating suffering: A view from NGO practice .- 9. Building paths to caring in crisis and mitigating the crisis of caring .- 10. Rounding out the humanitarian triangle: Reflections from an international perspective.