New forms: Anthropocene Festivals and experimental environmental governance

Ritts, Max; Bakker, Karen

doi:10.1177/2514848619886974

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“…The company ‘Growing Underground’, for instance, has developed a digital twin of its vertical farming operation designed to “monitor, learn, feedback and forecast information that will make the real-life twin work better” (Walsh 2021, np; see also Jans-Singh et al 2020). Through these systems, environmental variables can be sensed and modified, and efficiency and productivity maximised (Gabrys 2014; Green and Chandler 2014; Rose and Chilvers 2018; Wolfert et al 2017).…”

Section: Digital Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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 Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

Turnbull

Searle

Davies

et al. 2022

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…The papers in this special issue examine a wide range of technologies that generate, process, and disseminate data, from GPS data loggers (Blair, 2019) and satellite sensors (Vurdubakis and Rajão, 2020) to server farms (Lally et al., 2019), blockchain records (Ritts and Bakker, 2019), modeling software (Nost, 2020), and interactive maps (Goldstein and Faxon, 2020). Many of the papers start from common entry points into environmental conservation (is it effective and who benefits?)…”

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A political ecology of data

Nost

Goldstein

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Conservationists, governments, and corporations see promise in digital technologies to provide holistic, rapid, and objective information to inform policy, shape investments, and monitor ecosystems. But it is increasingly clear that environmental data does more than simply offer a better view of the planet. This special issue makes a single overarching argument: that we cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in global environmental governance without understanding the platforms, devices, and institutions that comprise environmental data infrastructures. The papers draw together scholarship from political ecology and science and technology studies to demonstrate how data has become a significant site in which contemporary environmental politics are waged and socionatures are materialized. We address: (1) the contested practices of utilizing and maintaining data infrastructures; (2) the ways they are governed and the territorial statecraft they enable; (3) the socionatural materiality they arise within but also produce. The papers in this special issue show that, against its dominant representation, data is material, governed, practiced, and requires praxis. Political ecologists could adopt such an approach to make sense of the emerging ways in which data technologies shape environments and their politics.

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“…More recent work is starting to explore the particularity of relations between festivals, places and communities and what such relations may mean for critically engaging with and addressing climate change (e.g. Alonso-Vazquez et al, 2019; Ritts and Bakker, 2019).…”

Section: Festivals In a Climate Changing Worldmentioning

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Future trajectories of festival research

Duffy

Mair

2021

Tourist Studies

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In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point has important insights to offer our understanding of a quintessential tourism event, that of the festival, which now intervenes in daily life in all manner of ways. In this commentary, we present a reflective commentary on recent scholarship that advocates for more rigour in festival studies, with greater theory development and testing within the festival context, and how this work is suggestive of future directions for festival research. We present several areas that are ripe for further research, particularly given the tumultuous nature of the world we are living in, such as the challenges of climate change and how we might socialise in a post-Covid world. Much has changed in the 20 years since the inception of Tourist Studies, but festivals remain resilient – they will re-emerge in future, perhaps not unscathed but with a renewed sense of purpose.

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New forms: Anthropocene Festivals and experimental environmental governance

Cited by 7 publications

References 61 publications

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance

A political ecology of data

Future trajectories of festival research

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