Humanitarian Extractivism: The Digital Transformation of Aid - Couverture souple

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526173352 ISBN 13 : 9781526173355

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians.

Digital initiatives aimed towards 'fixing' the humanitarian system, making it better and more secure, also create risk and harm for vulnerable individuals and communities. Central to the digital transformation of aid is the digital body - with digital identities becoming a prerequisite for receiving aid and protection - and the centralisation of vulnerability arising from enormous databases holding ever more humanitarian data. Cyber-attacks, human error and technological problems generate risks for humanitarians, but also mean that humanitarians themselves can put populations in need at risk.

The book explores new humanitarian spaces and practices such as the humanitarian drone airspace, wearable innovation challenges and ethics in global disaster innovation labs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies, PRIO and Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526173352
• ISBN 13: 9781526173355
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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