"This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy. This is, ostensibly, the information age. At the heart of the societal shift toward digitalistion, is the call for transparency and the liberalisation of information and data. Yet, with the recent rise of concerns...

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1. Verfasser:	Adams, Rachel (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:	New trajectories in law
Schlagworte:	Sociological jurisprudence Disclosure of information Transparency in government Human rights Technology and law
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Zusammenfassung:	"This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy. This is, ostensibly, the information age. At the heart of the societal shift toward digitalistion, is the call for transparency and the liberalisation of information and data. Yet, with the recent rise of concerns such as 'fake news', post-truth and misinformation, where the policy responses to all these phenomena has been a petition for even greater transparency, it becomes imperative to critically reflect on what this dominant idea means, whom it serves, what the effects are of its power. In response, this book provides the first sustained critique of the concept of transparency in law and policy. It offers a concise overview of transparency in law and policy around the world, and critiques how this concept works discursively to delimit other forms of governance, other ways of knowing and other realities. It draws on the work of Michel Foucault on discourse, archaeology and genealogy, together with later Foucaultian scholars, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Judith Butler, as a theoretical framework for challenging and thinking anew the history and understanding of what has become one of the most popular buzzwords of 21st century law and governance. At the intersection of law and governance, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in these fields; but also to those engaged in other interdisciplinary areas, including society and technology, the digital humanities, technology laws and policy, global law and policy, as well as the surveillance society"--
Beschreibung:	"Routledge Focus.". - Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law, 2017) issued under title: The creation of 'a world after its own image' : a genealogy of transparency Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2020)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xiii, 102 pages)
ISBN:	9780429340819 0429340818 9781000036299 1000036294