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).

“Humanitarianism & Media proves to be a very insightful, well-written, and interesting book, which is recommendable to students and researchers involved in history and media and communication sciences in general, and the fields of humanitarianism, advocacy, journalism, and their intersections in particular. While the work does not really offer any completely new theories or concepts, it questions existing ones and lays an inspiring foundation for more in-depth, structural and critical historical research on the theme.” • Communications“This very readable volume must be considered as an important contribution to a history of humanitarian activities. The contributors managed to use productively theories from media- and communication studies and, in addition, offer methodically fresh ideas for historical picture and film analysis.” • H-Soz-Kult“Nationalsocialst concentration camps and aerial warfare, famines during postcolonialism and the Spanish Civil War, all of which prevent comparable analysis for good reasons, remain separated because of borders, linguistic barriers or academic specialization, find here in pictures of “the pain of others” (Susan Sontag) their common point of reference. Not only specialists of human right (as well as Childhood Studies) and the history of photography would benefit from the thoughts and reflections offered here: in the age of visual communication this volume has set new standards.” • Sehepunkte“Based on substantial archival research and informed by relevant theoretical debates, this thought-provoking volume engages the reader in an interdisciplinary exploration of the central role the media have played for humanitarian initiatives, contributing significantly to recent scholarship on the subject”. • Nina Berman, Arizona State University“This volume consists of timely, useful, original contributions by historians, media scholars and anthropologists that will be essential reading for students”. • Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of Geneva

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsHumanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled HistoryJohannes PaulmannPART I: HUMANITARIAN IMAGERYChapter 1. Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesKatharina StornigChapter 2. “Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors”: Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil WarRose HolmesChapter 3. Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921–1965Appendix I: List of ICRC Films, 1921–1965 (Original Titles)Appendix II: ICRC ‘Humanitarion’ Films, by Director/CameramanDaniel PalmieriChapter 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 VictimsUlrike WeckelChapter 5. The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945–1947Paul BettsChapter 6. The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945Tobias WeidnerPART II: HUMANITARIAN MEDIA REGIMESChapter 7. On Fishing in Other People's Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising, and the Ethics of NGO PublicityHeike WietersChapter 8. Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990sValérie GorinChapter 9. Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Work of LiberationIlana FeldmanChapter 10. Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of GermanyPatrick MerzigerChapter 11. NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism, and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the “Ethiopian Famine”Matthias KuhnertChapter 12. The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)ActionMaria KyriakidouIndex