A Fresh Crop of Human Misery
Representations of Bosnian 'War Babies' in the Global Print Media, 1991—2006
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11921851 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Charli Carpenter (University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-54 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Millennium Journal of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-8298 • E-ISSN: 1477-9021 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829809336256 |
| OpenAlex | W2127753866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
During the war in the former Yugoslavia, women of all ethnic backgrounds were raped and many gave birth to children as a result of this violence. Although numerous journalists wrote about the pregnancies and the babies during the war, almost no attention has been paid to these children as such by human rights organisations during or since. Given the purported agenda-setting role of the global media in drawing attention to new human rights problems, this case represents an interesting puzzle and a site for exploring the interrelationship between gendered, nationalist and rights-based frames in the global media's representations of atrocity. This article explores how these representations both figured in gendered constructions of genocide and negatively affected the prospects of human rights attention to the children in their own right
Bosnian · Ethnic group · Genocide · Human rights · Linguistics · Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |