Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures v
4. Notes on Contributors vi
5. Notes on Funding x
6. Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis 1
7. Frames
8. Urban Data Power: Capitalism, Governance, Ethics, and Justice 21
9. Platforms as States: The Rise of Governance through Data Power 42
10. Data Ethics in Practice: Rethinking Scale, Trust, and Autonomy 59
11. The Contingencies of Urban Data: Between the Interoperable and Inoperable 79
12. Strategies
13. Experiments in Practice: New Directions in Municipal Data Policy and Governance 101
14. Webinars and War Rooms: Technopolitics of Data in the Digitalizing State 121
15. The Smartmentality of Urban Data Politics: Evidence from Two Chinese Cities 144
16. Tactics
17. Platform Work, Everyday Life, and Survival in Times of Crisis: Views and Experiences from Nairobi 167
18. An Urban Data Politics of Scale: Lessons from South Africa 184
19. Beyond ‘Data Positivism’: Civil Society Organizations’ Data and Knowledge Tactics in South Africa 204
20. Epilogue: Beyond Data and Crisis 227
21. Index 239