{"product_id":"posthumanitarianism-9780745698595","title":"PostHumanitarianism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mark Duffield's \u003ci\u003ePost-Humanitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how the world of humanitarian emergency provided a practical stage for new forms of knowledge and governing agency, now being generalised across the globe. Brimming with empirical insight and innovative conceptual framings, this book will be a must read for students, academics and practitioners interested in contemporary transformations in development, security and governance and in the need for a critical alternative.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Chandler, University of Westminster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his latest book Mark Duffield combines compelling theoretical insights and practical experience of humanitarian work in Sudan to paint a rather sombre picture of a post-humanitarian world governed increasingly by computers and algorithms. Disasters have long shaped North-South relations, but humanitarianism has become pessimistic towards human agency and its transformative potential to build modern infrastructure protecting people from disasters. The humanitarian sector has adopted post-humanist thinking alienated from human hopes and understanding. Duffield explores 'post-humanitarianism' as 'the international face of post-humanism'. Post-humanitarian alienation shapes the new field of digital humanitarianism and is complicit with a technological barbarism seeking to use digital technology to manage disaster-affected populations and dis-affected people living in precarious conditions. Yet Duffield's book bursts with optimism about humanity's potential to build a better world. His underlying argument is that technocratic cybernetic approaches are not fit for political problems. Only conscious collective human agency and popular accountability may help found a humane world.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eVanessa Pupavac, University of Nottingham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Introduction - Questioning Connectivity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Against Hierarchy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Entropic Barbarism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Being There\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Fantastic Invasion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Livelihood Regime\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Instilling Remoteness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Edge of Catastrophe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Connecting Precarity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Post-Humanitarianism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Living Wild\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Conclusion - Automating Precarity\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404434973015,"sku":"9780745698595","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745698595.jpg?v=1730486454","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/posthumanitarianism-9780745698595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}