Digital Ecologies
Digital Ecologies is an interdisciplinary and international research group fostering critical conversations at the interface of more-than-human and digital geographies, political ecology, digital humanities, and media studies to understand the mediation of more-than-human worlds. Our current members include Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Oscar Hartman Davies, Jenny Dodsworth, Henry Anderson-Elliott, Karolina Uskakovych, Noemi Duroux.
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At the core of our research is a commitment to empirically exploring what we term ‘digital entanglement’, a condition in which digital technologies have become constitutive of modes of living in more-than-human worlds. It is commonly assumed that digital technologies disengage or separate humans from nature, yet myriad examples point to the opposite: that digital technologies, in certain contexts, can foster convivial human-nonhuman relations. Yet we do not simply affirm technologies’ convivial capacities, remaining attentive to the directions in which technological trajectories are pointed and the speeds at which they unfurl. Collectively, we are committed to exploring digital human-nonhuman relations as always situated, fraught, and complex; where outcomes are never entirely determined in advance. We believe this work is crucial in the current conjuncture of techno-utopian and techno-dystopian hyperbole.
Our first book—Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds—explores forms of digital entanglement across diverse geographical contexts, published by Manchester University Press in 2024. Our past research and events have been kindly supported by the Vital Geographies research group at the Department of Geography at Cambridge, King’s College (University of Cambridge), the University of Bonn, the University of Nottingham, the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, the German Research Foundation (project number 446600467), the European Research Council (grant number 949577), the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, and the Technological Life research cluster at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
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