Markland, Alistair (2021). Epistemic Transformation at the Margins: Resistance to Digitalisation and Datafication within Global Human Rights Advocacy. Global Society, 36 (1), pp. 113-133.
Abstract
A post-human “transformation thesis” has emerged which posits that global politics is being radically altered by digital technologies and datafication. There is a polemical tendency to generalise about macro-level revolutions in both the techniques of governance and knowledge production across different political spheres, ranging from international security to development, humanitarianism and human rights. By instead applying a meso-level lens on global politics, this article cautions against excessive generalisations about epistemic transformations. It does so by emphasising the ways in which technological changes are mediated through field-specific struggles. This point is illustrated by demonstrating the absence of a radical data revolution within the field of global human rights advocacy. Through a sociological analysis of leading human rights NGOs and their epistemic cultures, it shows how that the field's humanistic sub-culture limits the adoption of novel digital- and data-centric practices.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2021.1879028 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Politics, History and International Relations |
Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Geography, Planning and Development,Global and Planetary Change |
Publication ISSN: | 1360-0826 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 12:43 |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2021 12:55 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2021-02-03 |
Published Online Date: | 2021-02-03 |
Accepted Date: | 2021-01-01 |
Authors: |
Markland, Alistair
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