Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance
Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Oscar Hartman Davies et al. · 26 Dec 2022
Digital technologies increasingly mediate relations between humans and nonhumans in a range of contexts including environmental governance, surveillance, and entertainment. Combining approaches from more-than-human and digital geographies, we proffer ‘digital ecologies’ as an analytical framework for examining digitally-mediated human–nonhuman entanglement. We identify entanglement as a compelling basis from which to articulate and critique digitally-mediated relations…
Reworking the political in digital forests: The cosmopolitics of socio-technical worlds
Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Danilo Urzedo et al. · 12 Aug 2022
Forests are increasingly central to policies and initiatives to address global environmental change. Digital technologies have become crucial components of these projects as the tools and systems that would monitor and manage forests for storing carbon, preserving biodiversity, and providing ecosystem services. Historically, technologies have been instrumental in forming forests as spaces of conservation, extraction,…
Waterscapes and hydrosocial territories: Thinking space in political ecologies of water
Silvia Flaminio, Gaële Rouillé-Kielo, Selin Le Visage · 3 Jul 2022
Over the past two decades, ‘waterscape’ and ‘hydrosocial territory’ have gained momentum in political ecologies of water. These concepts explore the material outcomes of the interplay of social and biophysical processes by building on two different core concepts of geography (‘landscape’ and ‘territory’). Relying on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus comprising 113…
An emerging governmentality of climate change loss and damage
Guy Jackson, Alicia N’Guetta, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa et al. · 11 Jan 2023
Loss and damage is the “third pillar” of international climate governance alongside mitigation and adaptation. When mitigation and adaptation fail, losses and damages occur. Scholars have been reacting to international political discourse centred around governing actual or potential severe losses and damages from climate change. Large gaps exist in relation to understanding the underlying power…
Between monitoring and surveillance: Geographies of emerging drone technologies in contemporary conservation
Naomi Millner, B. J. Newport, Chris Sandbrook et al. · 4 Feb 2024
Conservation has employed technologies for monitoring and visual capture since its inception in the nineteenth century. Since then, the capacities of conservation technologies have developed considerably, affording a wide range of data relating to ecological change and biodiversity loss. However, new technologies introduce fresh ethical and political issues into environmental protection, especially as they can…
