Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-191) and index.
Front cover; Half tittle; Series Editor; Tittle; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Foreword; Chapter 1 Global crisis? what crisis?; Chapter 2 Journalism in the global age; Chapter 3 (U N) Natural disasters: the calculus of death and the ritualization of catastrophe; (Un)natural disasters as global focusing events; Chapter 4 Ecology and climate change: from science and sceptic to spectacle and . . .; Chapter 5 Forced migrations and human rights: antinomies in the mediates ethics of care.
0
Climate change and threats to the planet's ecology, the 'global war on terror' and various forms of warfare and humanitarian emergencies and struggles for human rights - these, and other, global crises represent the dark side of our globalizing world. This work examines the media's involvement in some of the most humanly pressing global crises.