Rethinking access: how humanitarian technology governance blurs control and care
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Rethinking access : how humanitarian technology governance blurs control and care. / Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov; Fast, Larissa.
In: Disasters, Vol. 43, No. S2, 01.04.2019, p. S151-S168.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking access
T2 - how humanitarian technology governance blurs control and care
AU - Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov
AU - Fast, Larissa
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - Surprisingly little attention is paid to the role of digital technology and related forms of data production, storage, processing, and sharing in humanitarian governance. This paper uses Michael Barnett's () conceptualisation of humanitarian governance when arguing for a better accounting of technology in literature on humanitarian governance. Specifically, it proposes a two-fold alertness to governance of (a) the uses of new technology and (b) that which is produced by digital technologies. This elucidates important issues, including that of access to digitalised data collected from humanitarian subjects, with implications for their (in)security. The paper concludes by suggesting that access is no longer ‘only’ about challenges of gaining access to vulnerable populations, but also about challenges of preventing access to vulnerable digital bodies and their use for aggressive purposes. In short, access and protection acquire a new dimension and analyses of humanitarian governance must be more attentive to the role of digital technology.
AB - Surprisingly little attention is paid to the role of digital technology and related forms of data production, storage, processing, and sharing in humanitarian governance. This paper uses Michael Barnett's () conceptualisation of humanitarian governance when arguing for a better accounting of technology in literature on humanitarian governance. Specifically, it proposes a two-fold alertness to governance of (a) the uses of new technology and (b) that which is produced by digital technologies. This elucidates important issues, including that of access to digitalised data collected from humanitarian subjects, with implications for their (in)security. The paper concludes by suggesting that access is no longer ‘only’ about challenges of gaining access to vulnerable populations, but also about challenges of preventing access to vulnerable digital bodies and their use for aggressive purposes. In short, access and protection acquire a new dimension and analyses of humanitarian governance must be more attentive to the role of digital technology.
KW - agentic capacity
KW - digital technology
KW - digitalised data
KW - digitalised recipient bodies
KW - humanitarian access
KW - humanitarian technology governance
KW - vile bodies
U2 - 10.1111/disa.12333
DO - 10.1111/disa.12333
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30821355
AN - SCOPUS:85062351913
VL - 43
SP - S151-S168
JO - Disasters
JF - Disasters
SN - 0361-3666
IS - S2
ER -
ID: 226790180