Seeking Liberation

Surveillance, Datafication, and Race

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ID12729987
AuthorsRoderic N Crooks (0000-0001-7514-7021, UC Irvine Health, corresponding author), Roderic Crooks
Year2022
Volume20
Issue4
Pages413-419
Publication date2022-12-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSurveillance & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1477-7487 • E-ISSN: 1477-7487
PublisherSurveillance Studies Network (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.24908/ss.v20i4.15983
OpenAlexW4313321540
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited23

Critical data studies, a body of emergent research that draws on surveillance studies and other fields, investigates datafication, the increasing mediation of many forms of sociality by data-intensive, networked computation. Such research draws on well-trodden criticisms of the representational capacities of data and has recently offered the term “data justice” to direct this scholarly formation toward the harms of datafication. By failing to explicitly foreground the way that the capture and consultation of data constitutes a tactic by which the state sorts, controls, and limits the freedom of minoritized peoples, critical data studies substitutes an interest in describing forms of injustice for a commitment toward its undoing. I use McKittrick’s (2021) term “seeking liberation” to orient both surveillance studies and critical data studies scholarship away from mere description of the practices of data-intensive computation and surveillance and toward a shared project of justice for minoritized peoples

Criminology · Injustice · Law and economics · Mediation · Police brutality · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Undoing · Data Analysis and Archiving · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Race, Genetics, and Society

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