Jenna Imad Harb
Jenna Imad Harb
Jenna Imad Harb is a PhD candidate at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies and Business, as well as a Master’s degree in Sociology—both from the University of Waterloo. Jenna also completed three years of a PhD before transferring to RegNet under the Australian Government Research Training Program International Scholarship. Her research areas of interest are surveillance, technology, social assistance, and social inequality.
Guided by insights from Regulatory Governance, Science and Technology Studies, and Transnational Feminism, Jenna’s dissertation examines how humanitarians adapt to ongoing, sustained crises. Focusing on Lebanon as a transnational case of prolonged emergency response, Jenna employs a multi-sited ethnography to unpack how humanitarians mitigate breakdown in aid systems with (often overlooked) forms of labour. By interrogating how technology and work shape humanitarians’ adaptive strategies, her research highlights power asymmetries along the lines of gender, disability, class, migration status, race, and transnational domination.
Publications:
Orr, W., Henne, K., Lee, A., Harb, J.I., & Carneiro Alphonso, F. (2022). Necrocapitalism in the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform Food Couriers in Australia. Antipode (online first).
Henne, K., Shelby, R., & Harb, J. (2021). The Datafication of #MeToo: Whiteness, Racial Capitalism, and Anti-Violence Technologies. Big Data & Society.
Shelby, R., Harb, J.I., & Henne, K. (2021). Whiteness in and through Data Protection: An Intersectional Approach to Anti-Violence Apps and #MeTooBots. Internet Policy Review.
Bielefeld, S., Harb, J., & Henne, K. (2021). Financialization and Welfare Surveillance: Regulating the Poor in Technological Times. Surveillance & Society.
Henne, K., Shore, K., & Harb, J. (2021). Body-Worn Cameras, Police Violence and the Politics of Evidence: A Case of Ontological Gerrymandering. Critical Social Policy.
Henne, K., & Harb, J. (2020). Reading Body-Worn Cameras as Multiple: A Reconsideration of Entities as Enactments. In B.C. Newell (Ed.), Policing on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Police Accountability. Routledge.
Harb, J., & Henne, K. (2019). Disinformation and Resistance in the Surveillance of Indigenous Protesters. In B. Haggart, K. Henne, & N. Tusikov (Eds.), Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Shifting Power Structures in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
Supervisor:
Where privacy meets power: questions of data & racial inequality
Data are often understood as self-evident reflections of the world, even though there is growing evidence of how data-driven practices can have racially discriminatory outcomes.
Body cams alone not enough to prevent police violence
Experts are calling for broader police reforms after new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Waterloo in Canada raised serious que
Apps against sexual violence have been tried before. They don’t work - Kate Henne and PhD Scholar Jenna Harb
There’s been important criticisms of reporting consent through a #consentapp. Our ANURegNet
Current
Mapping the Digital Welfare State
This project examines how technologies, such as biometrics, predictive algorithms and risk assessments, are increasingly used in the context of social assistance provision and regulation.
Completed
Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World
The collaborative project explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic and social power.
Author(s): Harb, Jenna, Henne, Kathryn
Date of publications: 2021
Publication type: Book chapter
Author(s): Henne, Kathryn, Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Book chapter
Author(s): Henne, Kathryn, Shore, Krystle, Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Report
Author(s): Harb, Jenna
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Book Review
