The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics

Synopsis

When we look at some of the most pressing issues in environmental politics today, it is hard to avoid data technologies. Big data, artificial intelligence, and data dashboards all promise &“revolutionary&” advances in the speed and scale at which governments, corporations, conservationists, and even individuals can respond to environmental challenges. By bringing together scholars from geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ecology, The Nature of Data explores how the digital realm is a significant site in which environmental politics are waged. This collection as a whole makes the argument that we cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in critical, global environmental politics without understanding the role of data platforms, devices, standards, and institutions. In particular, The Nature of Data addresses the contested practices of making and maintaining data infrastructure, the imaginaries produced by data infrastructures, the relations between state and civil society that data infrastructure reworks, and the conditions under which technology can further socio-ecological justice instead of re-entrenching state and capitalist power. This innovative volume presents some of the first research in this new but rapidly growing subfield that addresses the role of data infrastructures in critical environmental politics.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

356 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781496232779

Related ISBNs:

9781496217158

Publisher:

Nebraska

Date of Addition:

10/01/22

Copyrighted By:

the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Earth Sciences

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Jenny Goldstein

Edited by:

Eric Nost