Technology, Management, and Design for Social Justice
Description
Technological and scientific innovation does not simply emerge; it is designed. From organizational systems and data infrastructures to platforms, policies, and everyday tools, design choices shape how power operates, whose knowledge counts, and who benefits from innovation. Technology, Management, and Design for Social Justice brings together global scholars and practitioners to critically examine how design, management, and technological systems reproduce inequality, and how they can be intentionally reimagined to advance equity, dignity, and planetary wellbeing.
Moving beyond views of technology as neutral or inevitable, this volume positions design as a moral and political practice embedded in institutions and governance. Through conceptual frameworks and global case studies spanning algorithmic management, climate-oriented innovation, indigenous digital infrastructures, youth innovation ecosystems, and welfare technologies, the chapters show how justice is designed into (or out of) sociotechnical systems.
Written for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners across management, design studies, science and technology studies, and social justice, this book offers critical tools for rethinking how innovation is shaped, and for whom.
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Persons
Latha Poonamallee is Professor of Management and Socio-Tech Innovation in the School of Design Strategies at the New School Parsons School of Design.
Simy Joy is Academic Visitor at the University of East Anglia.
Joanne Scillitoe is Professor of Management and the Inaugural Paul Jennings Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship at the California State University, Northridge, USA.
Anita Howard is an adjunct professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, USA.
Akhil, S.G. is a Doctoral Candidate in Management, Design & Innovation at Case Western Reserve University, USA.
Content
Part 1: Design: Concerns, conceptual frameworks and guiding principles.- Ch 1: The Imperative Nexus: Technology, Management, and Social Justice in the 21st Century: Reconfiguring the Technological Condition.- Ch 2: Revolutionizing and Balancing Algorithmic Management: Power and Justice.- Ch 3: Algorithmic Racialism as Structural Metamechanism: Replicating Racial Inequality in the Black Working Class.- Ch 4: Countering Risks of Interterritorial Digital Businesses by Developing Ethical AI or Human Peripheral Connectors in Metaverses.- Ch 5: Making personal data personal: The emergence of enactive data in organizations.- Ch 6: Infusing Virtuous Values into the Management and Governance of New 'Smart' Technologies.- Part 2: Implementation: Actors and action.- Ch 7: Technology and Innovation: The Role of Government in Fostering Social Justice through a "Startup Ecosystem".- Ch 8: Designing for 1.5°C Lifestyles: A Business-Driven Framework for Systemic Change.- Ch 9: Ocean Health Data.- Ch 10: Designing the Munduruku Digital Library.- Ch 11: Marginalization and Disinformation: The Perilous Use of Tech by Political Consultancies in India.- Ch 12: Fluid Futures: Bridging Institutional Voids in the Global South with Blockchains, Agentic AI and Transformative Knowledge.- Part 3: Outcomes.- Ch 13: Digital Access and Educational Equity: Technology Management and Social Justice among Youth in Bihar.- Ch 14: Technology Acceptance and Youth Innovation: Mapping Mobile Ecosystem Behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Ch 15: Empowering Tribal Youth: Bridging Educational Gaps through Technology and Social Justice in Jharkhand, India.- Ch 16: Universal Basic Income in the post-work world: Myths, Models, and Misalignments.- Ch 17: Digital States and Analog Lives: Technocratic Rationality and the Politics of Exclusion in India's DBT Welfare Regime.- Ch 18: Conclusion.