Overview
A 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Joachim J. Savelsberg
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780520281509
ISBN 10: 0520281500
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 10 September 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Reviews
Focusing on the case of Darfur, Savelsberg analyzes more than 3,000 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. He considers such questions as: 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? * Law & Social Inquiry * A very thoughtfully conceptualised and written work... a high level of theoretical and empirical craft. * Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy * A well-written and thoroughly researched project . . . Savelsberg's book makes a significant contribution to criminology, global sociology, and the study of collective memory. . . . compelling and interesting. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
A well-written and thoroughly researched project ... Savelsberg's book makes a significant contribution to criminology, global sociology, and the study of collective memory... compelling and interesting. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
A well-written and thoroughly researched project ... Savelsberg's book makes a significant contribution to criminology, global sociology, and the study of collective memory... compelling and interesting. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books A very thoughtfully conceptualised and written work... a high level of theoretical and empirical craft. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
Author Information
Joachim J. Savelsberg is Professor of Sociology and Law and Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair at the University of Minnesota. He is the coauthor of American Memories: Atrocities and the Law and author of Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities.
