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Biafra and the Nordic Media: Witness Seminar with Uno Grönkvist

Biafra and the Nordic Media: Witness Seminar with Uno Grönkvist - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Carl MarklundSeries:Issues of Contemporary HistoryTheme:Cultural Region/African, Cultural Region/West AfricaPublish date:5/8/2025Pages:100
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sodertorn UniversityISBN-13:9789189615489ISBN-10:9189615484UPC:9789189615489Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AfricaBook Topic:WestSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.21 inchesWeight:0.114Product ID:SCMNF5Z7X7

The Nigerian Civil War, spanning from 1967 to 1970, garnered significant global attention, especially due to the media's portrayal of suffering children in the seceding region of Biafra and the subsequent humanitarian response.

This booklet chronicles a seminar where journalists from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, who reported from Biafra, shared their experiences and perspectives on the conflict and the humanitarian efforts aimed at alleviating the famine. The discussions captured in this document provide valuable insights into Nordic humanitarianism and its ethical dimensions, with relevance for contemporary global aid initiatives and the involvement of Nordic countries in international humanitarian cooperation.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sodertorn UniversityISBN-13:9789189615489ISBN-10:9189615484UPC:9789189615489Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AfricaBook Topic:WestSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.21 inchesWeight:0.114Product ID:SCMNF5Z7X7
Götz, Norbert: - Norbert Götz holds the chair of contemporary history at Södertörn University. His current research focuses on humanitarianism, moral economy, global civil society, and civil society-state relations. His interests also include populism and nationalism, political culture, peace and international relations, democracy and the welfare state, and conceptual history. The larger Baltic Sea region, including the Nordic countries and Central and Eastern Europe, are special target regions, although his research includes the British Isles, global history, and the UN.Götz is the Swedish representative in the steering group of the research programme "Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World (ReNEW): An Excellence Hub in Reserach, Educaton and Public Outreach" (funded by NordForsk 2018-2024). He is responsible for working with doctoral researchers and emerging scholars, and is the organiser of the Fifth Nordic Challenges Conference, 1-3 June 2022, in Stockholm.Götz leads the project "Civil Society without Boundaries: Nordic Humanitarianism Facing the Biafra Crisis" (funded by the Swedish Research Council 2022-2024). His academic engagements include the Swedish Graduate School of History and the Association for Political History.Norbert Götz has been awarded the Hans Rosenberg Memorial Prize of the Heinrich August and Dörte Winkler Foundation in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for his dissertation, as well as the 15th Annual Scholarship Award of the Swedish Women's Educational Association International (SWEA)."Marklund, Carl: - Carl Marklund is Associate Professor in Nordic Studies (University of Helsinki 2017) and holds a PhD in History (European University Institute 2008). Presently, he serves as Research Director at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, where research activities are centered upon the recent geopolitical and socioeconomic changes in the Baltic-Nordic region and research-initiating witness seminars are arranged.
Publisher: Sodertorn University

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