Media, Diaspora and Conflict
This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past deca
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EDITED BY
Ola Ogunyemi
Media, Diaspora and Conflict
Ola Ogunyemi Editor
Media, Diaspora and Conflict
Editor Ola Ogunyemi School of Journalism University of Lincoln Lincoln, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-56641-2 ISBN 978-3-319-56642-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56642-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017944702 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Empato Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
In 1999, the former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in a speech delivered in Chicago, enunciated the doctrine of ‘liberal interventionism’ to justify Western intercession in the activities of states, such as Serbia, deemed by the international community to have crossed the threshold of lawful or ethical behaviour. At around the same period, the phrase ‘information intervention’ also entered the foreign affairs lexicon. It was coined by the writer and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Jamie Metzl, to describe the use of ‘untainted’ information to counter propaganda that legitimises human rights abuses. In a sense, these separate humanitarian advocacies were two sides of the same coin. One, a defence of hard power, the other of soft power. What they also have in common, of course, is a defined Westerncentric perspective. Take this comment from Metzl: If voices of moderation, reason and objectivity aren’t adequate within a given society, then the second objective is to get news and information from outside that society into it, to create a baseline of objectivity.1
Media and communications scholars may smile wryly at the un-ironic use of such contested concep
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