Publications

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Fleur Johns

#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order' by Fleur Johns.

Available for purchase from Oxford University Press.

  • Presents a ground-breaking study of digital humanitarianism and its ramifications for international law and politics
  • Analyses how populations, maps, and emergencies take shape on the global plane in digital form
  • Showcases an innovative interdisciplinary methodology centered on analysis of interfaces

Academic articles & scholarly book chapters

Wayne Wobcke, Caroline Compton, Fleur Johns, Jayson Lamchek & Siti Mariyah, Nowcasting for hunger relief: a study of promise and perils (2022) Information Technology for Development

Fleur Johns:

Norms, in Rosi Braidotti, Goda Klumbyte & Emily Jones (eds), More Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury (2023)

State changes: Prototypical governance figured and prefigured (2022) Law & Critique

Governance by Data (2021) 17:1 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 53-71

Surveillance Capitalism' and the Angst of the Petit Sovereign (2020) British Journal of Sociology

Drowning, Rescuing, and the Law in Between (2020) European Journal of Sociology

Counting, countering, and claiming the pandemic: digital practices, players and policies (2020) in Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives, Eds Taylor, Sharma, Martin, and Jameson

Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law (2019) in International Law and the Cold War, Eds Craven, Pahuja, and Simpson

From Planning to Prototypes: New ways of seeing like a state Modern Law Review  82.5 (2019): 833-863

Data, detection and the redistribution of the sensible in international law American Journal of International Law 111.1 (2017): 57-103

The temporal rivalries of human rights Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 23.1 (2016): 39-60.

Global governance through pairing the algorithm and the list Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34.1 (2016): 126-149.

Caroline Compton:

The Temporality of Disaster: Data, the Emergency, and Climate Change (2020) Anthropocenes

Just Adaptation and Relocation: New Challenges for the Anthropocene (2019) King's Law Journal

Fleur Johns and Caroline Compton:

Data jurisdictions and rival regimes of algorithmic regulation Regulation and Governance (2020)

Marion Fourcade and Fleur Johns: 

Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning Theory and Society (2020)

Relevant media outreach by project team members:

Fibre in the Coral Sea or message in a bottle? Who’s interests are we serving? blog with Pearls and Irritations: John Mandaue's Public Policy Journal, 3 August 2021

Digital witness and human rights: the Nuezca case New Mandala, 14 May 2021

Decision-making 2.0 for development and humanitarianism blog with Pulse Lab Jakarta, 11 March 2019

The promise and problems of including 'big data' in offical statistics The Conversation, 11 November 2018