Post-humanitarianism : governing precarity in the digital world / Mark Duffield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffield, Mark R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention--Developing countries.

Humanitarian intervention.

Humanitarianism.

Technology--Social aspects--Developing countries.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Social conditions--21st century.

Developing countries--Economic conditions--21st century.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2018.

Summary:

The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such a world, the spread of computers and connectivity, and the arrival of new digital sense-making tools are widely celebrated as helpful. But is this really the case or have we lost more than gained in the digital revolution? In Post-Humanitarianism: Governing Precarity in the Digital World renowned scholar of development, security and global governance Mark Duffield offers an alternative interpretation. He contends that connectivity embodies new forms of behavioural incorporation, cognitive subordination and automated management that are themselves inseparable from the emergence of precarity as a global phenomenon. Rather than reconstruct from disasters, survivors are encouraged to build 'resilience' - to adapt and make do with what remains. As an outcome of an economy now in permanent emergency, humanitarian disasters function as a site for trialling and anticipating the modes of social automation and remote management that govern this precarity and increasingly embrace us all. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Post Humanitarianism critically explores how increasing connectivity is inseparable from growing societal polarisation, anger and political push-back. It will be essential reading for students of international and social critique, together with anyone concerned about our deepening alienation from the world.

Contents:

Introduction

Questioning connectivity

Against hierarchy

Entropic barbarism

Being there

Fantastic invasion

Livelihood regime

Instilling remoteness

Edge of catastrophe

Connecting precarity

Post-humanitarianism

Living wild

Conclusion

automating precarity.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 202-225) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Duffield, Mark R. Post-humanitarianism.

ISBN:

9780745698588

0745698581

9780745698595

074569859X

OCLC:

1027830195