ABSTRACT
This chapter draws upon mainstream and feminist theories of data, science, and the internet to open the data management process to questions of ethics and politics, and especially to questions of data justice. It explains the increasingly formalised process of research data management, including the data management plan, in university research contexts as well as questions of data ownership for feminist researchers. It introduces the field of feminist data studies, which engages with issues raised by machine learning and open access data practices as well as data archiving. The chapter identifies data management as an important site for feminist engagement and advances alternative data management models grounded in values of justice and care. These alternatives mobilise tenets of a decolonial, anti-racist, and feminist liberatory politics to suggest feminist data management practices that can more effectively protect research-participant privacy and safety, ensure participants’ data sovereignty, and build alternative archives.
