Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

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 Seuis 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319843599
• ISBN: 978-3-31-984359-9
• No. of pages: 165
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 247 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 165 p. 9 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Globalisierung, C, Peace, Medienwissenschaften, Media Studies, Globalization, Conflict Studies, Communication, Entwicklungsstudien, International Relations, Poverty, auseinandersetzen, Development Aid, Political Science and International Studies, Media and Communication, International institutions, International Organization, Development Studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Political Communication