Outputs (19)

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.

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.