From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today's NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Humanitarianism and Media: Introduction to an Entangled History - Johannes Paulmann
• I. Humanitarian Imagery
• 1. Promoting Distant Children in Need: Christian Imagery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Katharina Stornig
• 2. ‘Make the Situation Real to Us without Stressing the Horrors’: Children, Photography and Humanitarianism in the Spanish Civil War - Rose Holmes
• 3. Humanitarianism on the Screen: The ICRC Films, 1921-65 - Daniel Palmieri
• 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 Victims - Ulrike Weckel
• 5. The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945-47 - Paul Betts
• 6. The Human Gaze: Photography after 1945 - Tobias Weidner
• II. Humanitarian Media Regimes
• 7. On Fishing in Other People's Ponds: The Freedom from Hunger Campaign, International Fundraising and the Ethics of NGO Publicity - Heike Wieters
• 8. Advocacy Strategies of Western Humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s - Valérie Gorin
• 9. Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Work of Liberation - Ilana Feldman
• 10. Mediatization of Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in the Federal Republic of Germany - Patrick Merziger
• 11. NGOs, Celebrity Humanitarianism and the Media: Negotiating Conflicting Perceptions of Aid and Development during the ‘Ethiopian Famine’ - Matthias Kuhnert
• 12. The Audience of Distant Suffering and the Question of (In)Action - Maria Kyriakidou