Madianou Mirca
Madianou Mirca - Technocolonialism When Technology For Good Is Harmful - Paperback
Madianou Mirca - Technocolonialism When Technology For Good Is Harmful - Paperback
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Description: With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common AI and big data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues however that digital innovation engenders new forms of violence and entrenches power asymmetries between the global South and North. Madianou develops a new concept technocolonialism to capture how the convergence of digital developments with humanitarian structures state power and market forces reinvigorates and reshapes colonial legacies. The concept of technocolonialism shifts the attention to the constitutive role that digital infrastructures data and AI play in accentuating inequities between aid providers and people in need. Drawing on ten years of research on the uses of digital technologies in humanitarian operations the book examines a range of practices: from the normalization of biometric technologies and the datafication of humanitarian operations to experimentation in refugee camps which are treated as laboratories for technological pilots. In so doing the book opens new ground in the fields of humanitarianism and critical AI studies and in the debates in postcolonial studies by highlighting the fundamental role of digital technologies in reworking colonial genealogies.
Title: Technocolonialism When Technology For Good Is Harmful
Author(s): Madianou Mirca
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509559039
Pages: 234 Pages
Publication Date: 1/13/2025
Category: Society & Culture: General
Description: With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common AI and big data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues however that digital innovation engenders new forms of violence and entrenches power asymmetries between the global South and North. Madianou develops a new concept technocolonialism to capture how the convergence of digital developments with humanitarian structures state power and market forces reinvigorates and reshapes colonial legacies. The concept of technocolonialism shifts the attention to the constitutive role that digital infrastructures data and AI play in accentuating inequities between aid providers and people in need. Drawing on ten years of research on the uses of digital technologies in humanitarian operations the book examines a range of practices: from the normalization of biometric technologies and the datafication of humanitarian operations to experimentation in refugee camps which are treated as laboratories for technological pilots. In so doing the book opens new ground in the fields of humanitarianism and critical AI studies and in the debates in postcolonial studies by highlighting the fundamental role of digital technologies in reworking colonial genealogies.
Title: Technocolonialism When Technology For Good Is Harmful
Author(s): Madianou Mirca
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509559039
Pages: 234 Pages
Publication Date: 1/13/2025
Category: Society & Culture: General
