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A look into the political consequences of big data and artificial intelligence. Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed as relations between citizens, political parties, governments, and corporations are gradually redrawn.Artificial Democracy explores the ways in which data collection and analytics and their application are changing political practices, government policies, and...

White Work and Reparative Genealogy invites white-identifying readers on a courageous journey into the heart of ancestral memory, historical accountability, and racial repair.

For Christina Leza, Gathering Together, We Decide brings together a broad range of community, academic, and artistic voices to reflect on the colonized state of Indigenous lands on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and to envision decolonized Indigenous futures.

This book assesses and critiques the legal right of access to government-held information in China with a special focus on legislative history, rationales, statutory language and efficacy of the Open Government Information (OGI) Regulations enacted in 2007 by the Chinese government.

This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories. It offers a way to consult Inuit oral history that opens a perspective on houses and landscapes that may otherwise be invisible to the barren eye. Working with and re-activating Indigenous knowledge of Greenland, the study draws on more than two thousand stories collected between 1735 and 1981, preserved, and later enrolled in an online and searchable database.

The ‘Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History.

Cet album, qui a pour objectif de suivre le parcours de Patrice Lumumba du moment où il obtient sa carte d’immatriculé jusqu’à ses derniers jours, nous parle surtout de la situation extrêmement complexe qui va amener la Belgique à abandonner bon gré mal gré son protectorat au Congo. On sent très bien la tension qui monte et le rôle de plus en plus important que joue Lumumba au fil des années dans cette lutte pour la décolonisation.

Our current information ecosystem makes it easier for misinformation about science to spread and harder for people to figure out what is scientifically accurate. Proactive solutions are needed to address misinformation about science, an issue of public concern given its potential to cause harm at individual, community, and societal levels. Improving access to high-quality scientific information can fill information voids that exist for topics of interest to people, reducing the likelihood of...

Les aberrations coloniales ne se sont pas évaporées. Leurs empreintes et leurs recompositions s'observent, aujourd'hui encore, un peu partout dans le monde. Leurs conséquences sont patentes. Au Nord et au Sud. L'existence sociale des Kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie s'est-elle véritablement et profondément améliorée ? Qu'est-ce qui, en Haïti, hante encore ses citoyens ?

Que deviennent les passé les plus douloureux quand leurs images photographiques deviennent numériques ? A quel point les mémoires conflictuelles et les écritures de l'histoire se trouvent transformées par les possibles ouverts par la numérisation ? A qui reviennent le droit et l'autorité de parler du passé à travers ces documents souvent perçus comme des preuves irréfutables ? Cet ouvrage offre un panorama des enjeux soulevés par la transformation des traces photographiques des passés les...

International Organization for Migration. (2025). IOM Digital Identity Toolkit⁠. International Organization for Migration. https://publications.iom.int/books/iom-digital-identity-toolkit-immigration-and-border-governance-unit

The Digital Identity Toolkit is designed to strengthen stakeholders’ understanding of how to establish and implement digital identity systems, with a strong emphasis on human rights, including privacy, security, and key technological considerations. The toolkit serves as a practical resource for policymakers and practitioners seeking to operationalize and implement digital identity frameworks. Its primary audience includes decision-makers and policymakers who possess a foundational...

International Organization for Migration. (2025). Standard Operating Procedures: Determining the Legal Identity of Migrants Without Proof of Legal Identity. https://publications.iom.int/books/standard-operating-procedures-determining-legal-identity-migrants-without-proof-legal

Identifying migrants without proof of legal identity is complex, requiring structured procedures. To support this, IOM has developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that provide step-by-step guidance to ensure consistency, efficiency and compliance with international standards. Adaptable to national contexts, the SOPs assist immigration and border authorities, law enforcement and other key stakeholders in verifying identity while safeguarding human rights.

Heritage, Indigenous Doing and Wellbeing presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life. From an Indigenous Australian perspective, the Western concept of heritage is intentionally exclusionary and supports social, political, economic, and environmental injustice.

The book examines the main issues and challenges associated with privacy and trust on social media in a manner relevant to both practitioners and scholars.

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism

Focuses on the archive as a form of art employed by various groups of the late Soviet underground, aiming to approach old archival materials related to the Soviet cultural underground on a meta-level of analysis to explore unofficial cultures, the history of state socialism, and topics of suppressed cultural memory

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives.

As the largest international armed conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s war against Ukraine has provoked strong reactions and questions about the post-1945 world order, the utility of the war, and the effectiveness of international criminal justice. Throughout the chapters in this volume, scholars and legal practitioners from Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, and the United States present the results of interdisciplinary research, insights from the perspective of other...

Grzebyk, P., & Uczkiewicz, D. (Eds.). (2024). The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes: Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003493785/russian-ukrainian-conflict-war-crimes-patrycja-grzebyk-dominika-uczkiewicz

As the largest international armed conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s war against Ukraine has provoked strong reactions and questions about the post-1945 world order, the utility of the war, and the effectiveness of international criminal justice. Throughout the chapters in this volume, scholars and legal practitioners from Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, and the United States present the results of interdisciplinary research, insights from the perspective of other...