New Book: “Nonkilling Media”
The Center for Global Nonkilling has just released its latest book Nonkilling Media, which includes a selection of 10 chapters prepared mostly by members of its Nonkilling Media Studies Research Committee. The volume, co-published by the Asian World Center at Creighton University and edited by CGNK Director Joám Evans Pim, has a Foreword by Beverly Deepe Keever, former Vietnam War correspondent and Professor emerita from the University of Hawaii’s School of Communications. A PDF version can be downloaded for free from CGNK’s website and paperback copies can be ordered at $15 from Create Space.com or Amazon.com.
The importance of rethinking media and entertainment from a nonkilling perspective is self-explanatory. In “Nonkilling Global Political Science”, Glenn Paige pointed out how violence is “socially learned and culturally reinforced”. This social effort is by no means casual or due to some innate taste or demand for violence content historically considered repugnantbut rather, “violent media socialization is useful for a state in need of professional patriotic killers”. Nonkilling creativity throuought the ages also shows how a life-enhancing media is possible. At the Center for Global Nonkilling we sincerely hope that the contributions compiled in this volume may help shape an alternative to the lethal ideology that permates media that may enhance the value of life.
The 230 page volume includes the following texts:
- Foreword, by Beverly Deepe Keever
- Introduction, by Joám Evans Pim
- Nonkilling Media: A Normative Framework, by Philip Lee
- The Media’s Untapped Potential: Contributing to the Reduction of Conflict-Related Deaths, by Virgil Hawkins
- Covering Killings: A Nonkilling Approach, by Xu Xiaoge
- Public Discourses for Nonkilling Societies, by Eloísa Nos Aldás
- Catastrophe and Progress in Nonkilling Futures, by John A. Sweeney
- Envisioning Nonkilling Futures in Film, by Karen Hurley
- Nonkilling Media from a Gender Perspective, by María José Gámez Fuentes
- Counternarratives to the intelligentsia, by Tom H. Hastings
- Contemporary Peaceful Societies, by Bruce Bonta
