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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.

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.

Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life (2020)
Journal Article
Turnbull, J., Searle, A., & Adams, W. M. (2020). Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(Supplement 1), 6.1-6.10. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00027_1

Quarantine conditions led to the proliferation of digital encounters with nonhuman animals. Here, we explore three prominent forms: creaturely cameos, avatar acquaintances and background birding. These virtual encounters afforded during lockdown life... Read More about Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life.