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#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order

#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order

Author: Fleur Johns
Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
ISBN: 9780197648872
Published In: April 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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Like many other areas of life, humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by information and communications technology. Despite this, the growing digitization of humanitarianism has been a relatively unnoticed dimension of global order. Based on more than seven years of data collection and interdisciplinary research, #Help presents a ground-breaking study of digital humanitarianism and its ramifications for international law and politics.

Global problems and policies are being reconfigured, regulated, and addressed through digital interfaces developed for humanitarian ends. #Help analyses how populations, maps, and emergencies take shape on the global plane when given digital form and explores the reorientation of nation states' priorities and practices of governing around digital data collection imperatives. This book also illuminates how the growing prominence of digital interfaces in international humanitarian work is sustained and shaped by law and policy.

#Help reveals new vectors of global inequality and new forms of global relation taking effect in the here and now. To understand how major digital platforms are seeking to extend their serviceable lives, and to see how global order might take shape in the future, it is essential to grasp the perils and possibilities of digital humanitarianism. #Help will transform thinking about what is at stake in the use of digital interfaces in the humanitarian field and about how, where, and for whom we are making the global order of tomorrow.

Chapter 1: Interfaces: New media of humanitarian relation

Chapter 2: Maps: Historical snapshots and digital rewriting

Chapter 3: Populations: From statistics to data science

Chapter 4: Emergencies: Waiting and watching in the palliative present

Chapter 5: States: Analogue and digital

Chapter 6: Law and policy: Infrastructures of interface

Chapter 7: Uses: Using, disusing and misusing digital humanitarian interfaces