Em um mundo que, pouco a pouco, é dominado pela urbanização, observar a realidade citadina significa analisar de perto a vida da maior parte dos habitantes do planeta. Nas Relações Internacionais, este movimento é compatível com o que Matt Davies chama de “encontrar o internacional no everyday” (2016, p.2), isto é, entender como as rotinas que consideramos tão simplesmente cotidianas estão impregnadas por fenômenos globais. Sendo a desigualdade um dos fenômenos mais marcantes da vida urbana no Sul Global, este artigo busca investigar como diferentes classes socioeconômicas interagem com a cidade. Como fonte de trabalho, moradia ou lazer, o tecido plástico da cidade parece sempre se moldar para garantir mais uma possibilidade àqueles que estão dispostos a explorá-lo de forma subversiva em práticas que desafiam noções e binários (que se pretendem) estáticos como público-privado e formal-informal.

Testimonial narrative keeps reaching a wider space in the context of refuge. It happens, in the first place, because this practice of storytelling is indispensable for those who wish to achieve the proper legal protection. Secondly, it is through the narrative that the refugee frequently speaks the unspeakable, tells their personal experience even if it means that they need to deal with a traumatic memory. This narrative, otherwise, is constantly tested, measured, verified in a context in which the borders of truth and lie are blurred. This paper seeks to explore the refugee’s testimonial narrative as a pathway to discuss individual memory and subjectivity.

Calling for a “data revolution,” the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to promote progress in matters related to planet, people, prosperity, peace, and partnerships (the “5Ps”) by mobilizing an all-encompassing datafying system that heavily relies on quantification. As such, the SDGs serve as a unique window that showcases the most up-to-date materials, methods, and forms of expertise in datafying practices, while also incentivizing local and national appropriation, with all the difficulties this entails. The article looks at the policy dynamics around SDG localization and the role of participatory methodologies, especially citizen-generated data, in Brazil’s engagement with the agenda. We depart from interviews conducted with various actors involved with SDG implementation, including civil society and public servants, and from engagement with the work conducted by one NGO specialized in citizen-generated data in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro. Two important findings are highlighted: Localizing strategies, i.e., those that aim to take subnational contexts into account in the achievement of the SDGs, have been used to promote an agenda on rights and, in addition, there has been a strong focus on local narratives as central aspects of communicating scientific data, where progress on the SDGs is but one vehicle in the struggle against statistical invisibility and political exclusion. These findings lead us to argue for a politics of care that can change how we do global public policy.