Human rights and technological change : conflicts and convergences after 1945 / edited by Michael Homberg and Benjamin Möckel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Homberg, Michael, 1987- editor.

Möckel, Benjamin, editor.

Series:

Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert

Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert ; v.10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Wallstein Verlag, [2022]

Summary:

Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Menschenrechten und modernen Technologien für die Zeit seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.Werkzeug der Unterdrückung oder Vehikel der Emanzipation? Moderne Technologien sind zu einem wichtigen Thema der Menschenrechtspolitik geworden. Überwachungstechnik, militärische Drohnen und digitale Datenanalysen stellen die internationale Menschenrechtsbewegung vor neue Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig eröffnen diese Techniken auch neue Chancen, Menschenrechtsverletzungen zu dokumentieren, anzuprangern und ein zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement zu fördern. In diesem Band wird diese ambivalente Beziehung in historischer Perspektive analysiert.Gezeigt wird, wie die Verbreitung moderner Technologien die Menschenrechtspolitik herausforderte und unterstützte. Hervorgehoben werden dabei vier Schlüsselbereiche: 1. Entwicklungspolitik, allen voran bei Infrastrukturen und technischen Großprojekten, 2. Bevölkerungspolitik und demographisches Wissen, 3. Medien- und Kommunikationstechnologien und 4. die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Computerisierung. Indem diese Debatten für die Zeit nach 1945 nachgezeichnet werden, erhalten aktuelle Diskussionen über die Herausforderungen neuer technologischer Entwicklungen eine historische Dimension.Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache._____The volume analyses the ambivalent relationship between human rights and modern technologies since 1945.Tools of suppression or agents of emancipation? Modern technologies have become a major subject of human rights policy. Surveillance technology, the military use of drones, and the possibilities of Big Data analysis pose new challenges for the international human rights movement. At the same time, these techniques offer new ways to document and denounce violations of human rights and to promote mass mobilization. The volume analyses this ambivalent relationship between human rights and technological change in a historical perspective.Showing how the spread of modern technologies both challenged and served human rights policies, the volume focuses on four key areas of technological change: 1) development politics, infrastructures and large technical systems, 2) population politics and demographical knowledge, 3) media cultures and communication technologies, and 4) the societal impact of computerization. By sketching these debates since 1945, the volume adds a historical perspective to current debates about the political and ethical challenges of new technological developments.The volume is published entirely in English.

Contents:

Umschlag

Titel

Impressum

Table of Contents

Michael Homberg/Benjamin Möckel: Introduction: Human Rights and Technological Change

I. Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Developments: Human Rights, Labor, and Technology

Ute Hasenöhrl: »Powering Progress, Empowering People«? (Hydro)Electricity and Human Rights in Post/Colonial India,1920s-1990s

Anna Sailer: Rationalising the Workplace. The Bengal Jute Industry between the 1920s and the 1950s

Daniel Roger Maul: The ILO, Asia, and the Beginnings of Technical Assistance, 1945-1960

II. Reproductive Rights: Family Planning and Demographic Politics

Roman Birke: Reproductive Technologies, Contraceptives, and Human Rights

Heinrich Hartmann: Contested Reproductive Rights. Population Technologies and the Quest for Individualism in the 1960s and 1970s

Claudia Roesch: A Human Right or a Danger to the Future? Debates about Family Planning Between Parental Rights and Duties in 1960s West Germany

III. Media Wars: Representing Rights, Legitimizing Violence

Daniel Stahl: Freedom Fighter. Weapons and Rights in the Cold War

Daniel Palmieri: Innovation, Technology, and Humanitarianism. The Example of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Lia Börsch: Image Activists. Building Structures, Arguing with Images, and Cooperating with Media Actors at Amnesty International 1975-1985

IV. Computer Technologies: (In-)Forming the Public

Benedikt Neuroth: Origins of a Human Right to Privacy. The United Nations' Debate on Science and Technology in the Context of the United States' Domestic Politics

Julia Gül Erdogan: Computer Power to the People. West German Hackers' Activism and Online Communication During the Yugoslavian Wars

Barbara Keys: Information and Communication Technologies in Human Rights Work in the 1990s.

Moritz Riesewieck: Into the Open. An Essay on Democratizing Social Media

Bibliography

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Contributors

Index of Persons.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [354]-384) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Homberg, Michael Human Rights and Technological Change

ISBN:

9783835348424

3835348426