Duffield, Mark
Post-Humanitarianism: Governing Precarity in the Digital World
In Post-Humanitarianism, 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 protect against disasters, we are encouraged to accept them as necessary for strengthening resilience. At a time of permanent emergency, humanitarian disasters function as sites for trialling and anticipating the modes of social automation and remote management necessary to govern the precarity that increasingly embraces us all.
Post-Humanitarianism critically explores how increasing connectivity is inseparable from growing societal polarization, 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.
Keywords: humanitarianism; digital technology; precarity; security; smart tech; foreign aid; remoteness; Arendt; development; humanitarian disaster; international aid; political instability; computers; global governance; alienation; slums; refugee; NGOs, War & Peace Studies, Political Geography, War & Peace Studies, Political Geography
- Author(s)
- Duffield, Mark
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 224 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745698625
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745698595