Data Power in Action

Introduction: Urban data Politics in Times of Crisis - Ola Soederstroem and Ayona Datta


Part 1: Framing Urban Data Politics


1. Urban data, governmentality, capitalism, ethics and justice - Rob Kitchin


2. Platforms as states: The rise of governance through data power - Petter Toernberg


3. Data Ethics in Practice: Rethinking scales, trust and autonomy - Alison Powell


4. The contingencies of urban data: between the interoperable and inoperable - AbdouMaliq Simone





Part 2: Strategies


5. Experiments in practice: New directions in municipal data policy and governance - Sarah Barns


6. Webinars and War-rooms: Techno-politics of data in shaping COVID19 narratives - Ayona Datta and Ola Soederstroem


7. The Smartmentality of Urban Data Politics: Evidence from Two Chinese Cities - Robin Xu Ying, Federico Caprotti and Crison Chien





Part 3: Tactics


8. Platform work, everyday life, and survival in times of crisis: views and experiences from Nairobi - Prince K Guma


9. An urban data politics of scale: Lessons from South Africa - Jonathan Cinnamon


10. Beyond 'data positivism'. Civil society organizations' data and knowledge tactics in South Africa - Evan Blake, Nancy Odendaal, Ola Soederstroem


Epilogue: Data, crisis, and learning - Orit Halpern