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Cross-posted from https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/PaulmannHumanitarianismFrom Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this new interdisciplinary volume edited by Johannes Paulmann explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. The book traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and aid have been constructed in a period of evolving mass communication, demonstrating the extent to which many seemingly new phenomena in fact have long historical legacies. Ultimately, the critical histories collected here help to challenge existing asymmetries and help those who advocate a new cosmopolitan consciousness recognizing the dignity and rights of others.ContentsIntroduction: Humanitarianism 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, 1921–1965Daniel 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 Peoples 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. Mediatisation 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 KyriakidouReviews:“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“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