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The Informational Logic of Human Rights Joshua Bowsher

The Informational Logic of Human Rights By Joshua Bowsher

The Informational Logic of Human Rights by Joshua Bowsher


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Shows how digital capitalism has shaped human rights practices.

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The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age by Joshua Bowsher

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 organisations 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.

About Joshua Bowsher

Joshua Bowsher, Lecturer in Sociology, Brunel University.

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GOR013838489
9781399509909
139950990X
The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age by Joshua Bowsher
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Edinburgh University Press
2022-10-31
224
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