Dr ADAM SEARLE's Outputs (22)

Geographies against bifurcation (2025)
Journal Article
Searle, A., & Vanderstraeten, S. (2025). Geographies against bifurcation. Dialogues in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251335314

Geographers have much to learn from speculative philosophy, which can provide us with theoretical tools to broaden our modes of analysis and understandings of research subjects. Following Alfred North Whitehead's radical proposal for altering how we... Read More about Geographies against bifurcation.

Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes (2025)
Journal Article
Vanderstraeten, S., & Searle, A. (2025). Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes. Theory, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241304719

Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast majority of microbial life in environmental samples, some microbiologists and commentator... Read More about Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes.

Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies? (2024)
Book Chapter
Searle, A., Giraud, E. H., Turnbull, J., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2024). Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies?. In J. Turnbull, A. Searle, H. Anderson-Elliott, & E. Haifa Giraud (Eds.), Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds (1-28). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170354.00007

Digital technologies increasingly mediate relations between humans and non-humans in a range of contexts including environmental governance, surveillance, and entertainment. Combining approaches from more-than-human and digital geographies as well as... Read More about Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies?.

Climate cattle: Metabolic intervention in the Good Anthropocene (2024)
Journal Article
Searle, A., Turnbull, J., & Oliver, C. (2024). Climate cattle: Metabolic intervention in the Good Anthropocene. Environmental Humanities, 16(3), 784-806. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11327348

Scientific measurement and prediction tools have highlighted the significant greenhouse gas contributions of farmed animals, particularly dairy and meat cows. Emergent analysis and associated political discourse have refigured narratives of blame for... Read More about Climate cattle: Metabolic intervention in the Good Anthropocene.

Digital ecologies in practice (2024)
Journal Article
Hartman Davies, O., Turnbull, J., & Searle, A. (2024). Digital ecologies in practice. cultural geographies, 31(4), 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241269172

Digital mediation profoundly shapes how cultural geographers understand and encounter nature. Practice-based engagements with digitally mediated natures pose methodological, aesthetic and ethical questions for cultural geographers. Reflecting on a co... Read More about Digital ecologies in practice.

From novel ecosystems to novel natures (2024)
Journal Article
Montana, J., Heger, T., Kelz, R., Bischoff, A., Buitenwerf, R., Eser, U., Kung, K., Sattler, J., Schweiger, A. H., Searle, A., Teixeira, L. H., Travassos-Britto, B., & Higgs, E. (2024). From novel ecosystems to novel natures. GAiA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 33(1), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.1.6

Ecologists, particularly restoration ecologists, were early to recognise the challenges of historically unprecedented combinations of species and abiotic conditions brought about by human intervention. However, to date, this ecological understanding... Read More about From novel ecosystems to novel natures.

Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2024)
Journal Article
Hunter, H., & Searle, A. (2024). Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(4), 770-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2304206

How do technologies animate more-than-human geographies after extinction? How can geographical scholarship evoke, or bring presence to, extinct biota? In an epoch simultaneously characterized by biotic loss at an unthinkable scale and the increased p... Read More about Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.

Glitches in the technonatural present (2023)
Journal Article
Searle, A., Turnbull, J., Hartman Davies, O., Poerting, J., Chasseray-Peraldi, P., Dodsworth, J., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2024). Glitches in the technonatural present. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2), 342-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231174633

Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined elements of the ‘technonatural present’, which pose varied challenges and openings for the future of geographical thought and praxis beyond the delineated sub... Read More about Glitches in the technonatural present.

Conjuring Up Ghost: Species On Photography and Extinction (2023)
Book Chapter
Adams, W. M., McCorristine, S., & Searle, A. (2023). Conjuring Up Ghost: Species On Photography and Extinction. In H. Stark (Ed.), Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene (137-154). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003315957-9

Species that became extinct before the invention of photography are present to scientists through specimens, skins, descriptions, or drawings. Photographs of extinct species belong to another order of presence altogether, one that accords with our mo... Read More about Conjuring Up Ghost: Species On Photography and Extinction.

Digital geographies and ecologies (2023)
Book Chapter
Turnbull, J., & Searle, A. (2023). Digital geographies and ecologies. In A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies (159-173). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200607.00023

Digitisation produces unique understandings of, and modes of access to, nonhuman worlds, and fundamentally reshapes conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics. In this chapter, we explore the fruitful confluence of disciplinary trends in... Read More about Digital geographies and ecologies.

Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance (2022)
Journal Article
Turnbull, J., Searle, A., Hartman Davies, O., Dodsworth, J., Chasseray-Peraldi, P., von Essen, E., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2023). Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance. Progress in Environmental Geography, 2(1-2), 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687221145698

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... Read More about Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance.

Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club (2022)
Journal Article
Turnbull, J., Searle, A., & Lorimer, J. (2023). Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(2), 232-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12569

This paper offers a detailed empirical account of how human–environment relations were reconfigured in the UK and Ireland during the 2020–2021 COVID‐19 lockdowns, a period which natural scientists defined as the COVID‐19 Anthropause. Bringing this sc... Read More about Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club.

The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor (2022)
Journal Article
Searle, A., Turnbull, J., & Adams, W. M. (2023). The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(1), 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12566

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, describin... Read More about The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor.

For a new weird geography (2022)
Journal Article
Turnbull, J., Platt, B., & Searle, A. (2022). For a new weird geography. Progress in Human Geography, 46(5), 1207-1231. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221116873

The contemporary ecological condition is one of ‘global weirding’, a term coined to describe both anthropogenically changed worlds and the experience of dwelling within them. In this paper, we foreground New Weird fiction as a progressive literary st... Read More about For a new weird geography.

Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies (2021)
Journal Article
von Essen, E., Turnbull, J., Searle, A., Jørgensen, F. A., Hofmeester, T. R., & van der Wal, R. (2023). Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(1), 679-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211061704

Digital surveillance technologies enable a range of publics to observe the private lives of wild animals. Publics can now encounter wildlife from their smartphones, home computers, and other digital devices. These technologies generate public-wildlif... Read More about Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies.

Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration (2021)
Journal Article
Turnbull, J., & Searle, A. (2022). Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration. cultural geographies, 29(3), 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211035471

After being captured from the streets of Moscow, Laika was the first living creature to be sent into Earth’s orbit by the USSR in 1957. The 2019 film, Space Dogs, tells the story of Laika’s spectral return to Moscow, and searches for her ghosts in th... Read More about Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration.

Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees (2021)
Journal Article
Searle, A. (2022). Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47(1), 167-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12478

How is extinction problematised through biotechnological and ecological interventions, and how might such mediations elucidate different understandings of biotic loss and recovery? The bucardo – an endemic ibex from the Pyrenees – is the only extinct... Read More about Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees.

After the anthropause: Lockdown lessons for more-than-human geographies (2021)
Journal Article
Searle, A., Turnbull, J., & Lorimer, J. (2021). After the anthropause: Lockdown lessons for more-than-human geographies. The Geographical Journal, 187(1), 69-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12373

The drastic reductions in human activities and mobilities associated with quarantines implemented to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2 was recently described as “the anthropause” by Christian Rutz and colleagues. Field scientists argue that the anthropau... Read More about After the anthropause: Lockdown lessons for more-than-human geographies.

Hunting ghosts: on spectacles of spectrality and the trophy animal (2021)
Journal Article
Searle, A. (2021). Hunting ghosts: on spectacles of spectrality and the trophy animal. cultural geographies, 28(3), 513-530. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474020987250

In lieu of material encounters, nonhuman spectres are made sense of through spectacles, imageries speculated upon with their own geographies and affects. This paper explores histories of trophy hunting in the Spanish Pyrenees, illustrating the emerge... Read More about Hunting ghosts: on spectacles of spectrality and the trophy animal.

Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Searle, A., & Turnbull, J. (2020). Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 291-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620933859

Stories of nature’s resurgence during quarantine have been dangerously conflated with an alarming narrative contending ‘Earth is healing, we are the virus’. Deploying a more-than-human perspective, we show how this discourse arises from biocultural d... Read More about Resurgent natures? More-than-human perspectives on COVID-19.