{"product_id":"9780520402843","title":"Predatory Data : Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive \"big data\" regimes.  Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data.   While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49648959684856,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780520402843-1.jpg?v=1783598248","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780520402843","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}