03091cam a22003855i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000170009702000300011402000270014402000260017102000310019703500130022804000230024104100080026404200080027205000240028010000200030424500800032426400430040430000300044733600260047733700280050333800270053150400510055850503880060952015500099765000520254765000380259965000190263765000490265623615703BJBSDDR20250929160603.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta240321s2025    enk     r     000 0 eng    a  2024935065  a9781509559039 (paperback)  a1509559035 (paperback)  z9781509559046q(epub)  z9781509565290q(adobe pdf)  a23615703  aDLCbengerdacDLC  aeng  apcc14aT 174.7bM182t 20251 aMadianou, Mirca10aTechnocolonialism :bwhen technology for good is harmful /cMirca Madianou. 1aCambridge, UK :bPolity Press, c2025.  avii, 248 pages ; c23 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction -- The Logics of Digital Humanitarianism -- Biometric Infrastructures -- Extracting Data and the Illusion of Accountability -- Surreptitious Experimentation: Enchantment, Coloniality and Control -- The Humanitarian Machine: Automating Harm -- Mundane Resistance: Contesting Technocolonialism in Everyday Life -- Conclusion: Technocolonialism as Infrastructural Violence.  a"With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming ever more common, AI and big data are being championed as a force for good and as a solution to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues, on the contrary, that digital innovation, data and AI practices entrench power asymmetries and engender new inequities 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 and, ultimately, rich and poor countries. Drawing on eight years of research on the uses of digital technologies and computation in humanitarian operations, the book examines a range of data and AI practices: from the normalisation 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 not only in the fields of humanitarianism and critical AI studies, but also in the debates in decolonial and postcolonial studies by highlighting the fundamental role of digital technologies in reworking and materialising colonial genealogies"--cProvided by publisher. 4aInnovaciones tecnológicas xAspectos morales  4aTecnología xAspectos sociales  4aHumanitarismo  4aInteligencia artificial xAspectos sociales