Technocolonialism : When Technology for Good Is Harmful, Hardcover by Madiano...

Description: Technocolonialism : When Technology for Good Is Harmful, Hardcover by Madianou, Mirca, ISBN 1509559027, ISBN-13 9781509559022, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 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 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 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 technologies in humanitarian operations, th 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, th 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 technologies in reworking colonial genealogies.

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