Dear colleagues, Morgan Mouton and I welcome submissions for our 4S Open Panel <https://www.4sonline.org/3-immaterial-streams-in-the-city-ecologies-economies-electrons/> "(Im)material streams in the city: ecologies, economies, electrons". The conference <https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/> will be a hybrid online and in-person in Toronto on October 6th-9th. To submit to this session by the 4S deadline of *March 8*, please submit your abstract in the 4S submission site here <https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/>. Please feel free to reach out to me or Morgan if you have any questions. *3. (Im)material streams in the city: ecologies, economies, electrons* The deepening datafication of urban life has had profound impacts on the organization, exploitation, and circulation of natural, social, economic, and political resources. These impacts are often material—for example in the extraction of minerals required to build digital devices or in the siting of data centers—and often discursive—as digitization becomes a rationale and logic guiding urbanization and new forms of data colonialism. What underlies them all is a unique set of circulations, movement, flows, and streams. In particular, streams of data make the circulations visible and governable. The datafication of urban services (e.g., energy, transportation, water, and waste) allows for real-time, fine-grained identification, quantification, and spatialization of all sorts of flows running across urban space. This key idea behind “smart city” discourses promises more control over urban space, urban metabolism, and streams of privately-held revenue. This panel explores how data capture, channel, and tame streams, circulation, and flows across urban space. We are especially (but not exclusively) interested in empirical and theoretical contributions from the Global South, and studies attuned to human and non-human relations. Questions 1. How has datafication, and the processes necessitating, facilitating, and emanating from it, transformed the ecologies and resources subtending urban space and urbanization? 2. How are flows initiated, maintained, and terminated for particular political and economic interests? 3. How do digital and analog urban infrastructures slow, accelerate, or direct these flows? 4. What sorts of knowledges and epistemologies are possible within this milieu, and how can we politicize them? Contact: ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca, morgan.mouton@u-pem.fr Keywords: Datafication, circulation, urban studies, capitalism, political ecology Best, Ryan Burns -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary Book Review Editor, *The Canadian Geographer* Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley http://burnsr77.github.io