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Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights (Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology)

Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights (Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology)

by Didier Bigo (Editor), EvelynRuppert (Editor), EnginIsin (Editor), Engin Isin (Editor), Evelyn Ruppert (Editor), Didier Bigo (Editor)

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    $141.80
Synopsis

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible.

Data and politics are now inseparable: data is not only shaping our social relations, preferences and life chances but our very democracies. Expert international contributors consider political questions about data and the ways it provokes subjects to govern themselves by making rights claims. Concerned with the things (infrastructures of servers, devices, and cables) and language (code, programming, and algorithms) that make up cyberspace, this book demonstrates that without understanding these conditions of possibility it is impossible to intervene in or to shape data politics.

Aimed at academics and postgraduate students interested in political aspects of data, this volume will also be of interest to experts in the fields of internet studies, international studies, Big Data, digital social sciences and humanities.

$141.80

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 26 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1138053252
ISBN 13: 9781138053250

Author Bio
Didier Bigo is Professor of war studies at King's College London and research professor at Sciences-Po, ceri Paris. He is editor of the quarterly journal, Cultures & Conflicts, and was the founder and co editor of International Political Sociology published by ISA. His work concerns sociology of surveillance, policing and borders. He has published in (2016) International Political sociology Transversal Lines, edited in collaboration with Tugba Basaran, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and R. B. J. Walker. Engin Isin is Professor in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP), UK. Isin's work concerns politics of the changing figure of the citizen as a political subject. He has authored Cities Without Citizens (1992), Citizenship and Identity (with Patricia Wood, 1999), Being Political (2002), Citizens Without Frontiers (2012), and Being Digital Citizens (with Evelyn Ruppert, 2015). He has edited Acts of Citizenship (2008) with Greg Nielsen, Enacting European Citizenship (2013) with Michael Saward, and Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies (2014) with Peter Nyers. His latest book is Citizenship after Orientalism: Transforming Political Theory (2015). Evelyn Ruppert is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She studies how digital technologies and the data they generate can powerfully shape and have consequences for how people are known and governed and how they understand themselves as political subjects, that is, citizens with rights to data. Evelyn is PI of an ERC funded project, Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS; 2014-19). She is Founding and Editor-in-Chief of the SAGE open access journal, Big Data & Society. Recent books are Being Digital Citizens (with Engin Isin) (2015) and Modes of Knowing (with John Law) (2016).