Global Governance by Data
Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2026
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-009-42532-2 (ISBN)
Description
We are living through an era of unprecedented data-driven regulatory transformation. AI and algorithmic governance are rapidly altering how global problems are known and governed, and reconfiguring how people, places, and things are drawn into legal relation across diverse areas - from labour, media and communications, and global mobilities to environmental governance, security, and war. These changes are fostering new forms of power, inequality, and violence, and posing urgent conceptual and methodological challenges for law and technology research. Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars working at the forefront of creative thinking and research practice in this area. The book offers fresh takes on the prospects for working collectively to critique and renew those legal and technological infrastructures that order, divide, empower and immiserate across our data-driven world. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Content
Prologue: towards a critical algorithmology Alain Pottage; 1. Groping for the shape of things: an introduction Fleur Johns, Gavin Sullivan and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche; Part I. Infrastructure, Imaginaries and Agency: 2. Platforms, data infrastructures, and infrastructure stacks Julie Cohen; 3. Digital border infrastructure and the search for agencies of the state Jennifer Raso; Part II. Rationalities, Styles and Logics: 4. Lost in the loop - who is the 'human' of the human in the loop? Jake Goldenfein; 5. Lost in translation: the troubling logics underpinning the embrace of governmental machine-learning based prediction tools for 'citizen scoring' Karen Yeung; 6. Race, by proxy Thao Phan and Scott Wark; Part III. Data Ecologies and Jurisdictions: 7. Sensoring the oceans: the argo floats science data infrastructure as an organic governance model Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury and Thomas Streinz; 8. Governance and interdependence in data-driven supply chains Jennifer Cobbe; 9. Algorithmic environmentality: data infrastructures in global environmental governance Roxana Vatanparast; Part IV. Violence, Accountability, Critique: 10. Digital surveillance, platform power and the politics of asylum Claudia Aradau; 11. New digital technologies, law, and a non-fascist life? On global governance, digital networks, and the molecular unconscious Matilda Arvidsson, Daniela Gandorfer and Dan McQuillan; 12. Invisibilise, foster and recraft racialised borders through algorithmic power: challenging the repressive hypothesis Martina Tazzioli and Ana Valdivia; Epilogue: Maybe it's not what, but how we see and with whom E. Tendayi Achiume