  The Advancing Data Justice Research and Practice (ADJRP) project aims to
widen the lens of current thinking around data justice and to provide
actionable resources that will help policymakers, practitioners, and impacted
communities gain a broader understanding of what equitable, freedom-promoting,
and rights-sustaining data collection, governance, and use should look like in
increasingly dynamic and global data innovation ecosystems. In this integrated
literature review we hope to lay the conceptual groundwork needed to support
this aspiration. The introduction motivates the broadening of data justice that
is undertaken by the literature review which follows. First, we address how
certain limitations of the current study of data justice drive the need for a
re-location of data justice research and practice. We map out the strengths and
shortcomings of the contemporary state of the art and then elaborate on the
challenges faced by our own effort to broaden the data justice perspective in
the decolonial context. The body of the literature review covers seven thematic
areas. For each theme, the ADJRP team has systematically collected and analysed
key texts in order to tell the critical empirical story of how existing social
structures and power dynamics present challenges to data justice and related
justice fields. In each case, this critical empirical story is also
supplemented by the transformational story of how activists, policymakers, and
academics are challenging longstanding structures of inequity to advance social
justice in data innovation ecosystems and adjacent areas of technological
practice.
