| Description |
1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
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nat Britons |
| Series |
Technicities
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Technicities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Beyond the neoliberal critique? -- Cybernetic capitalism/informational "politics" -- Seeing violations as events: technologies of capture and cutting -- Doing rights as indicators: informatising social and economic rights -- When violations become vectors: human rights work in the era of Big Data -- After informational logic: rethinking information/rethinking rights. |
| Summary |
"What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become vectors? As human rights organizations have increasingly embraced information technologies this 'datafication' of rights has become both a reality and a pressing concern, one inextricably tangled up with questions regarding the broader political valences of human rights. Combining contemporary social and cultural theory with archival research and original ethnographic work, Josh Bowsher resituates recent critiques of human rights within ongoing theoretical discussions concerning informational capitalism, digital culture and the politics of data. Critically analysing the contemporary human rights movement as an informational politics, Bowsher provides a new conceptual agenda for both exploring and overcoming the limits of human rights in an era shaped by the data flows, network infrastructures and informational logic of late capitalism."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Josh Bowsher is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, following a recently completed Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Brunel University. Broadly speaking, Josh's research explores the often-fraught relationships between human rights discourses, contemporary capitalism and radical change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Data processing.
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Human rights -- Social aspects.
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Data sets -- Social aspects.
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PHILOSOPHY / Political |
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Human rights -- Social aspects |
| Genre/Form |
Informational works
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Informational works.
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| Added Title |
Network imaginaries in the cybernetic age |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowsher, Josh. Informational logic of human rights. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] 139950990X (OCoLC)1316697201 |
| ISBN |
9781399509923 webready PDF |
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1399509926 webready PDF |
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9781399509930 epub |
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1399509934 epub |
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9781399509909 hardback |
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139950990X hardback |
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