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From novel ecosystems to novel natures (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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 ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance (2022)
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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... Read More about Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance.

Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club (2022)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Absence (2020)
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