Being genealogical in digital geographies

Leszczynski, Agnieszka

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“…Indeed, commercial videogames continue to exhibit forms of ‘Casual Empire’ by depoliticising and reframing colonial encounters as ‘adventure’ (Harrer 2018). Scepticism towards these games is compounded by the fact that digital encounters can be manipulated, misleading viewers with fabricated versions of nature (Louson 2021; Silk et al 2021). Furthermore, apps geared towards nature engagement often demonstrate a preoccupation with self-monitoring and competition—i.e., gamification (Arts 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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Section: Digital Encountersmentioning

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Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

Turnbull

Searle

Davies

et al. 2022

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…Likewise, there are a variety of works that continue to unpack what the digital and digital geography is (e.g. Ash et al, 2019;Bork-Hüffer et al, 2021;Leszczynski, 2021). Our attention in this book, however, is to go beyond these epistemological discussions and instead to examine the emerging global challenges that are setting the research agenda in digital geographies.…”

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Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies

Osborne¹,

Jones²

2023

A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies

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The digital' has become deeply enmeshed within our everyday lives and society, so much so that the COVID-19 pandemic merely accelerated the move towards placing many aspects of our lives online. The inescapable nature of digitisation has, and will continue to have, major consequences on how we live, work, and learn. In all sectors of society, the tidal wave of digitisation creates significant dilemmas and challenges, as well as opportunities. We live in a world where watches and phones monitor our bodies (Neff and Nafus, 2016), increasing numbers of policies focus on 'digital citizens' (European Commission, 2020), while cities and corporations constantly watch and listen to everything that goes on around them (Degen and Rose, 2022;Lupton, 2016). In academia, the digital's pervasiveness has led to 'digital turns' with many avenues of inquiry developing from 'digital humanities' (Gold, 2012) and 'digital sociology' (Lupton, 2014) to 'digital chemistry' (Bird et al., 2015) and 'digital biology' (Morris et al., 2005). Geography has also been subject to a 'digital turn' (Ash et al., 2018) with digital geographies emerging as a flourishing area of research. What this does not tell us, however, is what digital geographies is and why it matters. The comparison to digital turns in other disciplines is striking here. In the sciences, appending 'digital' to the name of the discipline has in many ways become a shorthand for using big data and artificial intelligence (AI) modelling as a way to derive new insights into existing topic areas. These techniques are exceedingly exciting and already widely used by geographers, both those working in the physical and human sides of the discipline. Digital geographies is about much more than simply the use of big data, however. Digital geographers have always advocated for a research philosophy that 'opens out' the discipline of geography (Kinsley et al., 2020) whereby "the digital can expand geographical thinking and that geographical thinking can, in turn, enrich the emerging and ongoing theorisation of 'the digital'" (Digital

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“…Students entering our discipline remain ready to transcend barriers we have created, seeking boundary objects that enable this and the legitimation that such boundary-crossing scholarship is valued. The geographic information system (GIS)/critical geography debates of the 1990s created such objects, transforming GIS-informed research (Cope and Elwood, 2009; Elwood and Leszczynski, 2018; Kwan, 2002; Leszczynski, 2020; Wilson, 2017). Taking up such epistemological influences as engaged pluralism (Barnes and Sheppard, 2010), we can do this again, and again.…”

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Geography and the present conjuncture

Sheppard

2022

Environment and Planning F

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Anthropogenic global heating is accelerating, with dramatic implications for the long-term prospects of humans and many other species, underwritten by the logics of Euro-centric capitalism compounded by the colonialism, racism, patriarchy, and commodification of nature that has accompanied it. Nationalism is re-emerging, as are socio-cultural divisions within national societal assemblages. Global capitalism faces a series of crises stemming from the consequences of these relations. Critics are quick to argue that non-capitalist alternatives can advance socio-ecological justice, but how? Geography is ideally suited to making sense of this conjuncture, critiquing the processes facilitating its emergence, and realizing alternatives. Yet we are far from achieving our potential, caught up in our own philosophical, ideological, and substantive silos. I argue that five priorities must be taken up if geographical thinking is to be suited for the present moment. We must be more historical in our thinking (integrating the temporal with the spatial). We must pay more attention to the macro-scale: to how local events are complexly bound-up in spatially differentiated planetary processes? We must be socio-ecological: incentivizing productive collaboration across earth science, social science, and humanities sub-fields. We must deconstruct our disabling quantitative–qualitative methodological divide, incentivizing training in multi-methods. We must work harder to diversify the perspectives and socio-spatial positionalities incorporated into geographical thinking to decenter White male, Anglophone, and settler geographies. Excitingly, the potential for all this exists within Geography today.

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Being genealogical in digital geographies

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies

Geography and the present conjuncture

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