Podcast

Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies

Problems of gifts and labour

In this recorded seminar hosted by The Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (Peace Research Institute Oslo/University of Oslo) delivered a presentation titled “Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour”.

This lecture explores what is the future of aid? What is a wearable in humanitarian contexts? What are the politics of knowledge production? What can we know about these gadgets? And finally what is the political economy of the data exchange?