Infrastructural Insurgency: Constructing Situated Data at Brazil’s Urban Periphery

Digital urban infrastructures combine sources of information about transformation to guide city planning and management. Yet there are epistemic inequalities in how informal settlements are represented, developed and redeveloped. It is within these lacunae that new data insurgencies are forming. Drawing case material from São Paulo, this paper argues that as local insurgencies transition from struggles for land to information, their new iterations renew a right to the city and present challenges to old agendas. The study of data insurgency provides a valuable perspective through which to measure digital urban infrastructures through the agency they facilitate and the spaces they create.