Angelina Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelina Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From In(-)formation to Infrastructural Turns
In his book, The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age, Joshua Bowsher critiques the human rights movement’s preoccupation with informational practices. Tracing the evolution of informational preoccupation of human rights organizations to the rise of cybernetics and its enmeshment with the neo-liberal project, Bowsher argues that the resulting practice of creating violations as events through capturing, cu…
Introduction-Data, Knowledge, Politics and Localizing the SDGs
This special issue explores the workings of global goals as an instrument of global governance by numbers. These goals can alter power relations, affect the distribution of resources, reorganize national and local priorities, create perverse incentives for performance, and produce narratives that shape thinking and communication. As the articles in the 2014 JHDC special issue showed, the MDGs had complex, often distorting, consequences which were…
Minimum Core and the Right to Education
Minimum core is a concept introduced by \n the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights \n (“Committee”) with the aim of ensuring “the satisfaction of, \n at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the \n rights is incumbent upon every State party.” The minimum \n core concept aims to set a quantitative and qualitative \n floor of socio-economic and cultural rights that must be \n immediately realized by the state as a matter…
The Quiet Power of Indicators
Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative's structure for measuring and reporting on corporate social responsibility, the World Justice Project's measurement of the rule of law, the World Bank's Doing Busin…
Governance by Indicators
The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International. Human rights indicators are being developed in the UN and regional and advocacy organizations. The burgeoning production and use of indicators has n…
Introduction-Data, Knowledge, Politics and Localizing the SDGs
This special issue explores the workings of global goals as an instrument of global governance by numbers. These goals can alter power relations, affect the distribution of resources, reorganize national and local priorities, create perverse incentives for performance, and produce narratives that shape thinking and communication. As the articles in the 2014 JHDC special issue showed, the MDGs had complex, often distorting, consequences which were…
From In(-)formation to Infrastructural Turns
In his book, The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age, Joshua Bowsher critiques the human rights movement’s preoccupation with informational practices. Tracing the evolution of informational preoccupation of human rights organizations to the rise of cybernetics and its enmeshment with the neo-liberal project, Bowsher argues that the resulting practice of creating violations as events through capturing, cu…
Governance by Indicators
The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International. Human rights indicators are being developed in the UN and regional and advocacy organizations. The burgeoning production and use of indicators has n…
The Quiet Power of Indicators
Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative's structure for measuring and reporting on corporate social responsibility, the World Justice Project's measurement of the rule of law, the World Bank's Doing Busin…
Minimum Core and the Right to Education
Minimum core is a concept introduced by \n the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights \n (“Committee”) with the aim of ensuring “the satisfaction of, \n at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the \n rights is incumbent upon every State party.” The minimum \n core concept aims to set a quantitative and qualitative \n floor of socio-economic and cultural rights that must be \n immediately realized by the state as a matter…
Introduction-Data, Knowledge, Politics and Localizing the SDGs
This special issue explores the workings of global goals as an instrument of global governance by numbers. These goals can alter power relations, affect the distribution of resources, reorganize national and local priorities, create perverse incentives for performance, and produce narratives that shape thinking and communication. As the articles in the 2014 JHDC special issue showed, the MDGs had complex, often distorting, consequences which were…
From In(-)formation to Infrastructural Turns
In his book, The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age, Joshua Bowsher critiques the human rights movement’s preoccupation with informational practices. Tracing the evolution of informational preoccupation of human rights organizations to the rise of cybernetics and its enmeshment with the neo-liberal project, Bowsher argues that the resulting practice of creating violations as events through capturing, cu…
Political science (5 works) · Human Rights and Development (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Global governance (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Accountability (2 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Business (2 works)