Saumava Mitra
Dr.
Contact Details
GLA: CA1110
T:Ext. 5448
E:Saumava.Mitra@dcu.ie
Assistant Professor
GLA C1110
T:Ext. 5448
E:Saumava.Mitra@dcu.ie
Assistant Professor
C1110
Henry Grattan Building
DCU Glasnevin Campus
T:+353 1 7005448
E:saumava.mitra@dcu.ie
W:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8622-7091
Saumava Mitra investigates how production processes and narratives in conflict and crises visuals influence each other. His most recent research focused on the working conditions of women photographers from conflict-affected contexts in the Global South. His previous research was on the working conditions and images of Afghan photographers who work for international organisations. Prior to joining DCU, Saumava lived and worked in academia, journalism and in communications in South Asia, East Africa, North and Central Americas and Europe.
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Saumava Mitra (2020) 'Real-ising rape' In: Hold your Story: Reflections on News of Sexual Violence in India. United Kingdom : Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion & Social Justice, Bournemouth University. | |
2021 | Mitra, S.; Creta, S.; McDonald, S. (2021) 'How our rage is represented: Acts of resistance among women photographers of the Global South' In: Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting. [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | Saumava Mitra (2022) 'Relational Labour or Digital Resistance: Social Media Practices of Non-Western Women Photographers' In: Social Media Images and Conflicts. London : Routledge. [Link] https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003176923 | |
2023 | Saumava Mitra; Brenda Witherspoon (2023) 'De-Westernizing Photojournalism: From photojournalism of the global south to photojournalism in the global south' In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South. Oxford : Routledge. [Link] [DOI] |
Edited Book
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Saumava Mitra and Chris Paterson (Ed.). (2021) Reporting Global while being Local: Local Producers of News for Distant Audiences. London: Routledge, [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Mitra, S.; Høiby, M.; Garrido, M. (2021) 'Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela'. JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 15 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2020 | Saumava Mitra (2020) 'Picturing Afghan Women for Western audiences: The Afghan perspective'. Journalism, 21 (6):800-820. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919849359 | |
2019 | Saumava Mitra; Chris Paterson; (2019) 'Reporting Global While Being Local: Local Sources of News for Distant Audiences'. Journalism Studies, . [DOI] | |
2019 | Saumava Mitra; (2019) 'Safety culture changing visual representations of wars? The case of Afghanistan'. . | |
2018 | Mitra, S.; (2018) 'Socio-cultural contexts and peace journalism: A case for meso-level comparative sociological investigation of journalistic cultures'. Journalism, . [DOI] | |
2017 | Mitra, Saumava; (2017) 'Adoptability and acceptability of peace journalism among Afghan photojournalists: Lessons for peace journalism training in conflict-affected countries'. . | |
2017 | Mitra, Saumava; (2017) 'Local-Global Tensions: Professional Experience, Role Perceptions and Image Production of Afghan Photojournalists Working for a Global Audience'. . | |
2016 | Saumava Mitra; (2016) 'Display-through-foregrounding by photojournalists as self-reflexivity in photojournalism: Two case studies of Accidental Peace Photojournalism'. . | |
2015 | Saumava Mitra; (2015) 'Communication and peace: Understanding the nature of texts as a way to resolve conceptual differences in the emerging field'. Global Media and Communication, . [DOI] | |
2014 | Saumava Mitra; (2014) 'Re-thinking visuals: Understanding discursive reformulation of visuals to inform Peace Journalism'. . | |
2021 | Mitra, Saumava; Witherspoon, Brenda; Creta, Sara (2021) 'Invisible in This Visual World? Work and Working Conditions of Female Photographers in the Global South'. Journalism Studies, . [Link] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2021.2007163 | |
2023 | Isaac Blacksin; Saumava Mitra (2023) 'Straddlers not Spiralists: Critical Questions for Research on Fixers, Local-Foreign News Work, and Cross-Border Journalism'. JOURNALISM: THEORY, PRACTICE & CRITICISM, Online First . [Link] [DOI] | |
2024 | Mitra, S.; Palmer L.; Seo, S. (2024) 'What Am I Doing Here? Self-Reflexivity in Cross-Border Journalism Research'. International Journal of Press/Politics, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241279174 |
Conference Contribution
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Saumava Mitra; (2019) Book review: Katherine Brown, Your Country, Our War: The Press and Diplomacy in Afghanistan. BREV [DOI] |
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Outreach Activities
Research Interests
Conflict Journalism and Photojournalism; Images of Wars and Crises; Foreign Correspondence; International News.
External Collaborators
Teaching Interests
Media and Communication Studies, Journalism Studies.