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.

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 International Studies Association. His work concerns sociology of surveillance, policing, and borders. He co-edited Transversal Lines (with Tugba Basaran, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and R. B. J. Walker, 2016) as part of the Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology.

Engin Isin is Professor in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK and University of London, Institute in Paris (ULIP). 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).

Chapter 1: Data Politics PART 1: Conditions of Possibility of Data Politics Chapter 2: Knowledge Infrastructures under Siege: Climate Data as Memory, Truce, and Target Chapter 3: Against Infrasomatisation: Towards a Critical Theory of Algorithms Chapter 4: Surveillance Capitalism, Surveillance Culture and Data Politics PART 2: Worlds Chapter 5: Mutual Entanglement and Complex Sovereignty in Cyberspace Chapter 6: Digital Data and the Transnational Intelligence Space Chapter 7: From Fake to Junk News, the Data Politics of Online Virality Chapter 8: Seeing Like Big Tech: Security Assemblages, Technology, and the Future of State Bureaucracy PART 3: Subjects Chapter 9: Towards 'data justice': Bridging Anti-Surveillance and Social Justice Activism Chapter 10: Theses on Automation and Labour Chapter 11: Data's Empire: Postcolonial Data Politics PART 4: Rights Chapter 12: The Right to Data Oblivion Chapter 13: Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights Chapter 14: Data Rights: Claiming Privacy Rights through International Institutions