ABSTRACT
Sovereignty over data or data governance is a broad theme concerning all “registered” and quantifiable knowledge regarding a people and the possibilities for such people to shape and own the data and the knowledge they originate or reflect. Data, once organized and “institutionalized”, generate knowledge, creating narratives about a people or their culture and meanings. This contribution questions narratives—constructed from data—in the context of political violence in the Basque Country, more particularly victims and memories of victims’ experiences. Different actors in the Basque conflict relate to different data in order to construct or reflect competing narratives over collective memory and collective identity. They look into different historical moments of victimization and when looking at the same period, their categories of victims and victimizers are used in different ways, leading to different politics of memory and drawing different moral conclusions.
