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Emotionality and Professionalism: Exploring the Management of Emotions by Journalists Reporting on Genocide
Sociology, volume 54, issue 3 (2020), pp. 609-625
"The dynamic nature of reporting requires journalists to interrogate their emotions as well as their sense of professionalism. This article focuses on the complex relationship between emotionality and professionalism mediated by journalists who reported on cases of genocide. This extraordinary confl
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The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), ix, 230 pp.
"This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as meaningless or in
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"We Have Failed as a Continent:" Covering an African Atrocity for an African Audience
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"This ethnic conflict frame performs three functions when used by African journalists. The first is that it works to domesticate the conflict [in Darfur] by relying on already sedimented knowledge among African audiences about identity formation … The second function of this frame is based on know
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What is the Relationship Between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's "Radio Machete"
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 97-130
"The evidence amounts to a persuasive refutation of the commonly held beliefs that radio had widespread, direct effects and that hate radio was the primary driver of the genocide and participation in it. That said, the evidence suggests radio had some marginal and conditional effects. RTLM broadcast
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The Perpetrator’s mise-en-scène: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide
Journal of Perpetrator Research, volume 2, issue 1 (2018), pp. 65-94
"Rithy Panh’s film 'S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine' (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker’s camera. Yet, a crucial
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Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xii, 313 pp.
"Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary
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Zimbabwe’s State-Controlled Public Media and the Mediation of the 1980s Genocide 30 Years On
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 145-165
"Since the end of genocide in 1987 Zimbabwe has remained a zone of ‘conflicts’, and the enduring debates surrounding this genocide, especially in public-owned but state-Controlled media, call for critical attention. Three years after independence, in 1980, Zimbabwe was plunged into a genocide na
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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press; Harvard University Press (2016), 359 pp.
"In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by d
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When the Subaltern Speaks: Citizen Journalism and Genocide ‘victims’ Voices Online
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101
"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly
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Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 6 (2014), pp. 790-809
"'During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-9) the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh was used under the codename S21 as a torture-and-execution centre. In 1979, the government of the newly established People's Republic of Kampuchea had it refurbished as memorial. Today, people from all over the wor
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Hate Radio: Materialien, Dokumente, Theorie
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2014), 255 pp.
Genozid in Ruanda
Message, issue 4 (2014), pp. 36-45
"Bei der Aufarbeitung des Völkermords in Ruanda liefern die Medien kaum Neues. Ihre zugespitzten und vereinfachende Berichte werden dem komplexen Ereignis oft nicht gerecht. Im Interview kritisiert Stefan Brüne überholte Gut-Böse-Narrative und fordert, im Angesicht aktueller Krisen den Fokus der
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Journalists as Witnesses to Violence and Suffering
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 752-773
German Colonialism and National Identity
New York; London: Routledge (2011), x, 340 pp.
"The German empire that emerges from the volume edited by Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer is one very much embedded in a broader European colonial discourse. Just like any other empire, Germany believed itself to be a "better" empire, more benevolent, more efficient, more civilized. Yet we le
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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past
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A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
London; New York: Zed Books, new updated ed. (2009), vii, 370 pp.
"In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what really happened, revealing both the scale, speed and intensity of the unfolding genocide, as well as exposing the governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening, if they had chosen
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Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2008), xi, 170 pp.
"The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? " (Publisher d
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Teaching Religion and Film
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 309 pp.
"Part I presents general categories for thinking about the intersection between religion and film, as well as an argument for an emerging line of theoretical inquiry. The chapters in Part II examine the use of film in teaching religious traditions, whether movies are seen from the critical perspecti
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Counteracting Hate Speech as a Way of Preventing Genocidal Violence
Genocide Studies and Prevention, volume 3, issue 3 (2008), pp. 353-374
"Hate speech regularly, if not inevitably, precedes and accompanies ethnic conflicts, and particularly genocidal violence. Without such incitement to hatred and the exacerbation of xenophobic, anti-Semitic, or racist tendencies, no genocide would be possible and persecutory campaigns would rarely me
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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Deep Insights
London; Kampala; Ottawa: Pluto Press; Fountain Publishers; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), xvi, 463 pp.
"This book examines the crucial role the media played in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, bringing together local reporters and commentators from Rwanda, Western journalists, and media theorists. Part One (eight articles) describes and analyzes "Hate Media in Rwanda", mainly, but not exclusively, focusing
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