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We live in a world of rapidly growing gaps between rich and poor. In the rich parts of the world, new resource-consuming devices are launched every year. But at the same time, about a fourth of the world's population does not have access to clean drinking water, and more than half lack safely managed sanitation. What role does technology have in these growing global inequalities? Is technological development the root cause of inequality? Or is the unequal distribution of technology just a mirror of social inequities that have other causes? And can new technologies be instrumental in making the world less unfair?
In Technology and Equality, these issues are addressed from a wide range of perspectives by scholars in disciplines such as history, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, and philosophy. Case studies highlight technology-related inequalities for instance in climate mitigation, public transport, access to water, waste management, sanitation, air pollution, healthcare, digital communication, and law enforcement. The more theoretical chapters provide tools and concepts that are helpful for analyzing and understanding the relationships between technology and inequality in other applications and in more general perspectives.
Contents
Preface
1. Technology and Equality: An Introduction, Sven Ove Hansson
2. Law, Public Policy, and Equality, Colleen Murphy
3. Who Decides on Technology Development?, Armin Grunwald
4. Technology and Gender Equality, Lena Wånggren
5. Disability and Technology? No, Disability As Technology., Shelley Tremain
6. Work, Technology, and Equality, Sven Ove Hansson
7. Artificial Intelligence, Equality, and the Future of Work, Sven Nyholm and Markus Rüther
8. Information Technologies and Human Rights, Giovanni Sartor
9. Agriculture, Paul B. Thompson
10. Water and Inequality, Neelke Doorn
11. Is Breathing Clean Air a Matter of Equality?, Ebba Malmqvist
12. Human reproduction, Camisha Russell
13. Technology and Inequality in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Nicole Hassoun and Anders Herlitz
About the Authors
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