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What Are We Actually Talking About? Conceptualizing Data as a Governable Object in Overlapping Jurisdictions

  • Data form an increasingly essential element of contemporary politics, as both public and private actors extend claims of their legitimate control in diverse areas including health, security, and trade. This paper investigates data governance as a site of fundamental normative and political ordering processes that unfold in light of ever-increasing inter- and transnational linkages. Drawing on the concept of jurisdictional conflicts, the paper traces the evolution of data governance in three cases of transatlantic conflicts as diverging definitional claims over data. The paper argues that these conflicts reveal varying conceptualizations of data linked to four distinct visions of the social world. First, a conceptualization of data as an individual rights issue links human rights with the promotion of sovereignty to a vision of data governance as local liberalism. Second, proponents of a security partnership promote global security cooperation based on the conceptualization of data as a neutral instrument. Third, a conceptualization of data as an economic resource is linked to a vision of the digital economy that endorses progress and innovation with limited regulation. Fourth, a conceptualization of data as a collective resource links the values of universal rights and global rules to a vision of global protection.
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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Anke S. Obendiek
Parent Title (English):International Studies Quarterly
Publication year:2022
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab080
Release Date:2022/11/01
Volume:66
Issue:1
Article Number:sqab080
Hertie School Research:Jacques Delors Centre
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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