Abstract: Digital ecologies draws together leading social science and humanities scholars to examine how digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics. The book offers an overview of the emerging field of interdisciplinary digital ecologies research by mapping key debates and issues in the field, with original empirical chapters exploring how livestreams, sensors, mobile technologies, social media platforms, and software are reconfiguring life in profound ways. The collection traverses contexts ranging from animal exercise apps, to surveillance systems on the high seas, and is organised around the themes of encounters, governance, and assemblages. Digital ecologies also includes an agenda-setting intervention by the book's editors, and three closing chapter-length provocations by leading scholars in digital geographies, the environmental humanities, and media theory that set out trajectories for future research.

Jonathon Turnbull, University of Oxford
Jonathon Turnbull is a cultural, environmental, and urban geographer from Newcastle upon Tyne. His research examines how understandings of nature are produced and contested across geographical contexts and why this matters for more-than-human social, political, and economic life. Jonny's ESRC-funded PhD research took place in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. His current postdoctoral research, funded by the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, investigates urban rewilding initiatives in the British Isles.

Adam Searle, University of Nottingham
Adam Searle is a cultural, historical, and environmental geographer broadly researching the relations between humans, other species, and technologies. His research examines how developments in science and technology implicate the lives of animals and environmental governance within the overlapping crises of climate breakdown and mass extinction. Prior to becoming a Nottingham Research Fellow, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Science and Technology Studies at the Université de Liège (Belgium). He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

Oscar Hartman Davies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Oscar Hartman Davies is an environmental and cultural geographer from London. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History at the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment. Oscar received a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford in 2024, and has held visiting positions at the University of Oslo, the University of Helsinki, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Oscar's research is concerned with processes of digitisation and datafication, and how these transform human-animal and human-environment relations. His PhD research focused on these dynamics in the context of ocean governance, as well as on the practices and ethics of using marine animals as sentinels or indicators of environmental crises.

Moderation : Krystel Wanneau, Sciences Po Grenoble / REPI

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
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REVIP est un cycle de séminaires qui a pour but de rassembler des chercheurs en sciences sociales autour de questionnements relatifs aux modes d’existence du « vivant » et de son entrée en politique. Dans cette perspective, les rencontres organisées visent à replacer humains et non-humains au cœur des controverses qui les animent en invitant des intervenants académiques et non-académiques à venir échanger sur leurs recherches et leurs expériences du « vivant » dans leur domaine d’étude et/ou d’action.

Comité d’organisation
Virginie Arantes (REPI, EASt), Camille Chamois (PHI), Emmanuel Charreau (CTP), Alice Dechamps (CEVIPOL), Eléonore De Decker (REPI), Eric Fabri (CTP), Quentin Hiernaux (PHI), Marc-Antoine Sabaté (CTP), Krystel Wanneau (Sciences Po Grenoble, REPI), Christophe Wasinski (REPI), Allan Wei (LIEU)