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Ludescher, Ladislaus: „Das größte lösbare Problem der Welt“: Die mediale Vernachlässigung des Globalen Hungers, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.1651

Identifiers

ISBN 978-3-911056-34-2 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-911056-35-9 (Softcover)

Published

10/02/2025

Authors

Ladislaus Ludescher

„Das größte lösbare Problem der Welt“

Die mediale Vernachlässigung des Globalen Hungers

Hunger is one of the most basic human experiences. Around one in ten people in the world suffers from hunger. Every day, around 24,000 people die as a result of hunger, about one child under the age of 5 every 13 seconds. However, hunger is by no means an inevitable fate. The United Nations World Food Programme describes hunger as “the world's biggest solvable problem”. Politically and in the media, however, the topic is radically neglected. In this study, 39 media were analysed, including over 8,000 editions of news programmes, around 500 episodes of political talk shows and more than 1,000 editions of print media with around 37,000 printed pages.

Ladislaus Ludescher is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Studies Department in Heidelberg and a habilitand at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His research interests include German-American literary and cultural relations and, in particular, domestic and foreign media analysis.

Chapters

Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
1-4
Inhaltsverzeichnis
5-6
Kurzfassung der Studie mit den wichtigsten Ergebnissen
7-10
I Ausführliche Zusammenfassung und Einführung
11-23
II Das Problem Globaler Hunger und seine Lösbarkeit
25-48
III Datenkorpus (untersuchte Medien) und Methodik
49-54
IV Fallbeispiele der medialen Marginalisierung des Globalen Hungersund des Globalen Südens
55-117
V Anhang (Auswertungsergebnisse der 39 untersuchten Medien)
119-261
VI Literaturverzeichnis
263-290
VII Medienregister
291-292
Danksagung
293

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