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Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

English · Hardback

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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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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. 

Summary

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

Product details

Authors Shani Orgad, Irene Brun Seu, Irene Bruna Seu
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2017
 
EAN 9783319502588
ISBN 978-3-31-950258-8
No. of pages 165
Dimensions 156 mm x 219 mm x 218 mm
Weight 360 g
Illustrations XIII, 165 p. 9 illus. in color.
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries

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