The Politics of Distorted Data
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2024

War turns people into numbers", said Oleksandra Matviichuk, the Head of the Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize-winning Centre for Civil Liberties, during her Speech to Europe in Vienna in May 2023. 1 But what if the numbers are turned into people?The infamous 'fog of war' spreads not only to the actual battlefields with unknown war casualties on both sides but also reaches civilian -yet highly political and emotionally charged -matters.This text focuses on one such issue -the attempt to calculate how m