Gender, Power and Emergent Technology:
Relational governance for AI-mediated institutions.
Governing the Default
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
Across clinics, classrooms, city halls, and financial systems, emerging technologies are being adopted faster than many institutions can govern. This book names the often invisible work of care, consent, refusal, oversight, and repair as governance.
THE PROBLEM
AI moves faster than governance structures
Those closest to harm are farthest from authority
Care and repair are treated as informal work
WHAT THE BOOK OFFERS
Relational Governance
Decision rights, feedback, refusal, repair
Leaders governing AI and data systems
Healthcare and mental-health leaders
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Gender as a lens on Power
Proximity to authority, visible and invisible labor
Constructive next steps
Suggestive tools, not one-size fits all
Educators and course adopters
Organizational “onlys” pushing change
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Cross-sector cases
Clinics, schools, cities, finance, leadership
WHO IS THIS FOR
Public-sector and municipal practitioners
Scholars of AI ethics, feminist STS, data studies
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ENDORSEMENTS
“An essential feminist and relational lens on AI governance, with practical tools that can be adopted now.”
—Caroline Green, Director of Engagement, Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
“Too often AI tools are handed to clinicians with great attention to accuracy and almost none to how decisions get made at the bedside. … Timely, and genuinely usable.”
—Max Topaz, PhD, RN, FAAN, Columbia University & VNS Health
“Shows how we might collectively construct responsible governance systems by reconceptualizing consent and resistance.”
—Keith Grint, Emeritus Professor, Warwick Business School
“Shows how data and AI systems reproduce power when care, consent, accountability, refusal, and repair are subordinated to scale, efficiency, and market-led innovation.”
—Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director and Senior Fellow, IT for Change
Contributors
Eight fields of practice. One shared governance question.
From African knowledge systems to women’s health, youth AI safety, financial inclusion in Nigeria, companion AI, mentorship, Finland-based practice, and hyperlocal public governance, the chapters show where AI governance becomes human work.
RESOURCE KIT - COMING SOON
Teaching prompts, chapter exercises, discussion questions and applied governance tools for classrooms, leadership teams and learning communities.
SPEAKING / TEACHING
Invite Christine for keynotes, salons, workshops, classroom sessions, or executive briefings on relational AI governance.
