Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club

Turnbull, Jonathon; Searle, Adam; Lorimer, Jamie

doi:10.1111/tran.12569

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“…The theme of how ISM may evolve going forward, and what this means for environmental sustainability, will thus be an important feature of the analysis. This research also hopes to contribute to the recent expansion of the anthropause concept beyond the natural and into the social sciences (Turnbull et al , 2022; Searle et al , 2021).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility

McCollum

Nicholson

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to stimulate the nascent research agenda on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing mushrooming of international student mobility (ISM). The higher education (HE) system in the UK and elsewhere is increasingly predicated upon the hosting of international students. Whilst this drive towards internationalisation undoubtably has multiple benefits, little attention thus far has been paid to its potentially very considerable environmental impact. The drive for internationalisation within HE thus potentially sits at odds with ambitions and strategies to promote sustainability within the sector and beyond. Design/methodology/approach In-depth interviews with 21 students and representatives of 14 university international offices offer insights into how the environment features in the decisions that young people and HE institutions make with regards to partaking in and promoting education-related mobility. Findings The results find that students take environmental considerations into account when undertaking education-related mobility, but these aspirations are often secondary to logistical issues concerning the financial cost and longer travel times associated with greener travel options. At the institutional scale, vociferously championed university sustainability agendas have yet to be reconciled with the financial imperative to recruit evermore international students. Originality/value This paper identifies a thus far neglected contradiction within HE whereby the sustainability agenda that it so rightly espouses is potentially undermined by the drive towards internationalisation. The paper uses the anthropause concept to consider the future environmental sustainability of ISM.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility

McCollum

Nicholson

2023

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“…Similarly, Barua (2021) examines the recombinant ecologies of parakeets and peregrines in London. Regarding digitisation, Jonathon Turnbull et al (2022) explore how digital technologies enable broad participation in birdwatching through a case study of the Self-Isolating Bird Club. Herein, we draw from and converse such studies of urban and digital ecologies.…”

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The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor

Searle

Turnbull

Adams

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Humans, non-human animals, and technologies are increasingly entangled.Using the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) as an illustrative example, we propose 'technonatural history' as a theoretical and methodological approach for observing, describing, and examining the role technologies play in shaping human relations with other species. After nearing extinction in the 20th century, peregrines have become woven into the fabric of everyday urban life and are a frequently sighted urban raptor in the UK, nesting on high-rise buildings and church spires since the late 1990s. Their unexpected presence in cities symbolises hope for multispecies conviviality amid the contemporary ecological crisis.As their populations resurged, crucially, webcam and livestreaming technologies developed rapidly. Peregrines were one of the first animals to be broadcast over the internet via 'nestcams', granting broad publics access to their intimate lives.We examine the related technological histories of livestreaming technologies and natural histories of peregrine falcons in the UK, tracing the emergence of 'the digital peregrine' and its manifold implications for more-than-human and digital geographies. To do so, we build on oral history interviews with people associated with digital peregrines throughout the UK: nestcam technicians, peregrine conservationists, professional ecologists, activists, and citizen scientists. While digitisation brings broad publics closer to these cosmopolitan raptors, they can only ever grasp at the wildness of peregrine falcons and their wider milieus as the digital peregrine is a distinct entity, encountered via its own set of affects and affordances. In the peregrine's case, digital technologies create unexpected and radical opportunities for urban conviviality, signalling the positive potentials technologies host for forging meaningful more-than-human connections.

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“…However, emerging research in digital ecologies is beginning to show that focusing solely on in-game, in-app, or on-screen encounters is an ineffective approach. Indeed, digital encounters-gaming or otherwiseregularly incite action beyond the screen, such as seeking out a physical encounter with a bird from user coordinates logged in a database (see Turnbull et al 2022;Von Essen et al 2021).…”

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Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

Turnbull

Searle

Davies

et al. 2022

Progress in Environmental Geography

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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 in diverse situated contexts. Three questions guide this approach: What digital technologies and infrastructures give rise to digital entanglement, and with what material consequences? What is at stake socially, politically, and economically when encounters with nonhumans are digitised? And how are digital technologies enrolled in programmes of environmental governance? We develop our digital ecologies framework across three core conceptual themes of wider interest to environmental geographers: (i) materialities, considering the infrastructures which enable digitally-mediated more-than-human connections and their socioenvironmental impacts; (ii) encounters, examining the political economic consequences and convivial potentials of digitising contact zones; (iii) governance, questioning how digital technologies produce novel forms of more-than-human governance. We affirm that digital mediations of more-than-human worlds can potentially cultivate environmentally progressive communities, convivial human–nonhuman encounters, and just forms of environmental governance, and as such note the urgency of these conversations.

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Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club

Cited by 6 publications

References 118 publications

Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility

Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility

The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

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