Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices

Atuhura, Dorothy

doi:10.1080/13696815.2021.1984216

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“…In doing so, humanitarian communications limit understanding of how corporations create a disaster by masking processes like capitalism. The absence of humanitarian narratives about North America, where Indigenous movements contest extractive industries (Kuokkanen, 2019 ), is also striking, suggesting that humanitarian crises and disasters are still by and large viewed as something that happen in the distant, different, and separate ‘Global South’ (Atuhura, 2022 ).…”

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International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity

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Narratives are a means of making sense of disasters and crises. The humanitarian sector communicates stories widely, encompassing representations of peoples and events. Such communications have been critiqued for misrepresenting and/or silencing the root causes of disasters and crises, depoliticising them. What has not been researched is how such communications represent disasters and crises in Indigenous settings. This is important because processes such as colonisation are often at the origin but are typically masked in communications. A narrative analysis of humanitarian communications is employed here to identify and characterise narratives in humanitarian communications involving Indigenous Peoples. Narratives differ based upon how the humanitarians who produce them think that disasters and crises should be governed. The paper concludes that humanitarian communications reflect more about the relationship between the international humanitarian community and its audience than reality, and underlines that narratives mask global processes that link audiences of humanitarian communications with Indigenous Peoples.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%