Publications

Here you can find a list of the publications and media appearances on the topic of humanitarian communication done by members of the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication. And below that list you can find a catalogue of prominent academic publications on the topic of humanitarian communication, subdivided into ten different subtopics that are relevant to the field. If you want to have the full catalogue at a glance, you can click here.

Communication Guides

• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Inclusive Communication Guide for International Cooperation.” Partos and the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (2023): 1-44.
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Guiding Principles for Humanitarian Communication.” Partos and the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (2023). Download here in Dutch and here in English.
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Inclusive Language Glossary.” Partos and the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (2023). Download here in Dutch and here in English.

Future briefs

• Oomen, Wouter, and Emiel Martens. “Production Practices in Humanitarian Communication.” Partos Future Brief 3 (March 2024).
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Storytelling Genres in Humanitarian Communication.” Partos Future Brief 2 (March 2023).
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “The History of Communication by and about Development Cooperation.” Partos Future Brief 1 (July 2022).
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Communication Codes outside the Development Cooperation Sector.” Part of Partos Future Brief 1 (July 2022).

Journalistic publications

• Martens, Emiel. “Stop Filming Us: de film die inderdaad nooit gemaakt had mogen worden.” OneWorld (April and October 2020).
• Martens, Emiel. “Stop Filming Us: The Film That Indeed Should Never Have Been Made.” ZAM Magazine (May 2020).
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Waarom deze ontwikkelingscampagnes echt niet meer kunnen.” OneWorld (June 2020).
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen. “Why These Aid Campaigns Need to End.” ZAM Magazine (June 2020).

Television, radio and podcast appearances

• Altaf, Anika. “People in vulnerable situations are too often depicted in an unethical manner.” Nieuw Wij (July 2022).
• Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen. “The Individual Changemaker.” Beyond Poverty Porn Storycast Series. Episode 6. Disrupt Development (16 March 2022, 12′).
• Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen. “Celebrity Humanitarianism.” Beyond Poverty Porn Storycast Series. Episode 5. Disrupt Development (12 January 2022, 15′).
• Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen. “Hope-Based Communications.” Beyond Poverty Porn Storycast Series. Episode 4. Disrupt Development (24 November 2021, 14′).
• Mina Etemad, Emiel Martens, Wouter Oomen, and Gigi Pasco Ong-Alok. “Winners Humanitarian Communication Awards 2021.” Beyond Poverty Porn Storycast Series. Episode 3. Disrupt Development (8 July 2021, 20′).
• Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen. “Nominees Humanitarian Communication Awards 2021.” Beyond Poverty Porn Storycast Series. Episode 2. Disrupt Development (1 July 2021, 18′).
• Martens, and Wouter Oomen. “Introduction to Humanitarian Communication.” Beyond Poverty Porn Storycast Series. Episode 1. Disrupt Development (28 June 2021, 18′).
• Martens, Emiel, and Wouter Oomen (among others). “Hoe verkoop je een ramp?” Medialogica (September 2020).
• Oomen, Wouter. “Humanitarian Communication Awards.” Radio interview. NPO Radio 1 (June 2018).
• Oomen, Wouter. “Waar gaat het mis met ontwikkelingscampagnes?” Radio interview. Wat het daglicht niet verdragen kan. NPO Radio 1 (July 2020).
• Oomen, Wouter, and Emiel Martens. “Poverty Porn 2.0.” Podcast. Episode 14. Disrupt Development (1 September 2020, 30′).

Academic publications

• Oomen, Wouter, Emiel Martens and Anna Piccoli. “The Neoliberal Workings of ‘The Family Meal’ Campaign: Unfortunate Others, European Citizens, and the Branding of the EU.” European Journal of Cultural Studies (2020): 1-19.