Can I read Automating violence? The anti-politics of ‘smart technology’ in biodiversity conservation on EtoBox?

Automating violence? The anti-politics of ‘smart technology’ in biodiversity conservation by Naomi Parris-Piper; Wolfram H. Dressler; Paula Satizábal; Robert Fletcher is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Automating violence? The anti-politics of ‘smart technology’ in biodiversity conservation about?

This article examines the politics of emerging partnerships among big-tech corporations, big international non-governmental organisations (BINGOs) and bilaterals that promote the uptake and implementation of ‘smart technologies’ in biodiversity conservation. Despite growing global recognition of Indigenous and local peoples' rights to forests, lands, and oceans as central to socially just and successful conservation, new initiatives to conserve 30% of the Earth's territory by 2030 (‘30 × 30’) under the United Nations' (UN) post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework largely continue to neglect their existing customary rights and uses of biodiverse territories. The consequences of this have become evident in new global conservation partnerships that are taking a ‘technological turn’. ‘Smart technologies’ that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) and complex hardware, such as camera traps, drones, and smartphones, enable new forms of surveillance and securitisation through and beyond conventional conservation practices. Despite their potential to exacerbate social injustices against historically marginalised groups, the situated character of smart technology impacts and outcomes often re

Who reads Automating violence? The anti-politics of ‘smart technology’ in biodiversity conservation?

Author

Naomi Parris-Piper; Wolfram H. Dressler; Paula Satizábal; Robert Fletcher

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)