Narratives are a means of making sense of disasters and crises. The humanitarian sector communicates stories widely, encompassing representations of peoples and events. Such communications have been critiqued for misrepresenting and/or silencing the root causes of disasters and crises, depoliticising them. What has not been researched is how such communications represent disasters and crises in Indigenous settings. This is important because processes such as colonisation are often at the origin but are typically masked in communications. A narrative analysis of humanitarian communications is employed here to identify and characterise narratives in humanitarian communications involving Indigenous Peoples. Narratives differ based upon how the humanitarians who produce them think that disasters and crises should be governed. The paper concludes that humanitarian communications reflect more about the relationship between the international humanitarian community and its audience than reality, and underlines that narratives mask global processes that link audiences of humanitarian communications with Indigenous Peoples.

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关于灾难、危机和原住民的国际人道主义叙述

叙事是理解灾难和危机的一种手段。人道主义部门广泛传播故事，包括人民和事件的代表。此类沟通因歪曲和/或压制灾难和危机的根源、使其非政治化而受到批评。尚未研究的是此类通信如何代表原住民环境中的灾难和危机。这很重要，因为诸如殖民化之类的过程通常是在起源处的，但通常在通信中被掩盖。这里采用人道主义传播的叙述分析来识别和描述涉及土著人民的人道主义传播中的叙述。叙述的不同取决于制作它们的人道主义者认为应该如何治理灾难和危机。该文件的结论是，人道主义传播更多地反映了国际人道主义界与其受众之间的关系，而不是现实，并强调叙述掩盖了将人道主义传播受众与土著人民联系起来的全球进程。