Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices

Contemporary forms of data activism promise community organizers the means to pursue political action, but they simultaneously threaten responsibilize individuals and communities for documenting collective harms that are already known state. In this article, we use Mouffe’s articulation agonistic pluralism analyze recent literature on in terms double bind, threat authentic voice might be muted when is used activist purposes. We argue navigate bind through practices, tactics which draw affective narrative potentialities dispute by majoritarian agents rationalize their actions direct policy. Agonistic practices do not presume will lead more equitable consensus representative government or a rational debate public sphere; instead, mobilize antagonisms motivate people act, imagine alternative arrangements, contribute long-term action. conclude mapping out research agenda focuses enacted minoritized Los Angeles metropolitan area.