Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and Ngos

ISBN-13: 9783319502588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 165 str.

Irene Bruna Seu; Shani Orgad

Opis

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or don t match what the public wants, thinks and feels about distant suffering"

Spis treści

1. Caring in crisis and the crisis of caring: Towards a new agenda 

Bruna Seu and Shani Orgad

SECTION 1: Public Responses and the ‘3M’Model

2. Caring in crisis? Public responses to mediated humanitarian knowledge  

Bruna Seu

3.Connecting to suffering

Paul Hoggett

4. The mediation of caring

Sonia Livingstone

5. Supporting more people that care to take action for international change: The challenge for humanitarian NGOs 

Glen Tarman

SECTION 2: Mediating Care

6. Caring enterprise in crisis? Challenges and opportunities of humanitarian NGO communications 

Shani Orgad

7. Humanitarian communication and its limits 

<Monika Krause

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or not what the public want, think and feel about distant suffering.