Global Governance by Data

Fleur Johns is Dean and Head of School of Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. Her prior books include: Connection in a Divided World (2024); #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order (2023); and Non-Legality in International Law: Unruly Law (2013). Gavin Sullivan is a Reader at Edinburgh Law School and interdisciplinary law, technology and security scholar leading the UKRI-funded sociolegal research project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, AI and International Law. His first book, The Law of the List (2020), won the 2021 ISA International Law and STAIR-ISA Book Awards. Dimitri Van Den Meerssche is Senior Lecturer and IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His current research focuses on the impact of algorithmic governance on political subjectivity. Dimitri co-founded and convenes the ESIL International Law & Technology IG. His first monograph is The World Bank's Lawyers (2022).

• 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