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Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule

Edited by Fleur Johns · Gavin Sullivan · Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available September 2026

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9781009425322
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
September 2026
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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
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