Contributors

William M. Adams is a geographer based in Geneva and Cambridge. He is currently Claudio Segré Professor of Conservation and Development in the Centre for International Environmental Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research ranges across environmental history and political ecology. He is particularly interested in the way novel technologies shape ideas and practices in nature conservation. His book Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Genome Editing (co-authored with Kent Redford) was published by Yale University Press in 2021.

Henry Anderson-Elliott is an independent scholar. He studied for his PhD and MPhil at the University of Cambridge in the Scott Polar Research Institute and the Department of Geography where he co-founded the Digital Ecologies research group. He has also held an ESRC Grand Union DTP research fellowship at the University of Oxford, and a visiting fellowship at The Arctic Institute, Washington DC. His research focus is on polar bears and the varied human relationships with the species. This has also led to an interest in the role of technologies in mediating human–wildlife relations, encounters, and modes of governance. He has also worked in documentary film on a natural history production for National Geographic.

Liliana Bounegru is Senior Lecturer in Digital Methods at King’s College London. Her research interests include data journalism, digital journalism, digital methods for social and cultural studies, and controversy mapping.

Gabriele Colombo is a researcher in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include visual methods, communication design, and information visualisation.

Oscar Hartman Davies is an environmental and cultural geographer focusing on digital transformations in environmental governance, particularly in marine ecosystems. Oscar’s PhD research explored the histories and contemporary uses of seabirds as sentinels of marine environmental change in scientific and marine governance practices. His ongoing research with the Digital Ecologies research group focuses on approaches to tracking and modelling animal movement and creative approaches to visualising environmental change. Oscar is also a co-founder of a youth-led nature recovery organisation and acts as an advisor to initiatives in the UK and Finland focusing on broadening youth participation in nature recovery.

Katharine Dow is an independent researcher working on the intersections between reproductive and environmental concerns and activism. She was previously senior research associate and deputy director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) at the University of Cambridge and visiting fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and the monograph Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction (Princeton University Press, 2016) and has given keynote lectures at Tampere University, London School of Economics, and the University of Granada. She received her PhD in social anthropology from the LSE.

Sophia Doyle is a PhD fellow in the Minor Cosmopolitanisms research training group at Potsdam University. Combining her degree in postcolonial cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and practical training in regenerative agriculture, her work explores the imperial histories and political ecology of food and farming and agro-industry’s role in consolidating white supremacist capital, state, and military power. Her PhD project interrogates the historical development of the logics and logistics of industrial agriculture through colonial processes of dispossession, genocide, and enslavement to understand how racial-colonial violence structures modern food systems today. She is involved in various grassroots collectives and self-organised learning spaces in Berlin. Sophia is passionate about connecting across movements, geographies and disciplines to support landworkers’ struggles as part of a broader anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist politics of liberation.

Eva Haifa Giraud is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Society at Sheffield University, whose research focuses on the (sometimes fraught) relationship between theoretical work focused on relationality and entanglement, and activist practice. Her publications include What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism and an Ethics of Exclusion (Duke University Press, 2019), Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), and articles in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, New Media & Society, and Social Studies of Science.

Jonathan W.Y. Gray is Director of the Centre for Digital Culture and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London; co-founder of the Public Data Lab; and a research associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). His research explores the role of digital data, methods, and infrastructures in the composition of collective life. More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and at @jwyg.

Hannah Hunter is a PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University in Canada. Her research interests include sonic geographies, historical geographies of nature, and social studies of science. Her doctoral project and recent publications explore sonic geographies of extinction and the history of bird sound recording.

Sandra Jasper is Assistant Professor of Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests are urban nature, soundscapes, and feminist theory. She has published on urban wastelands, the botanical city, acoustic architecture, and the sonic dimensions of landscape design. She is co-author and producer of the documentary film Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (UK/GER, 2017).

Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History, University of Stavanger, Norway, specialising in histories of environment and technology. Her current research agenda focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction. She published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging with MIT Press in 2019. She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Humanities and co-directs The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at UiS.

Finn Arne Jørgensen is Professor of Environmental History and co-director of The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger. His research is placed at the intersection of technology and environment, drawing on history, media studies, and science and technology studies. He has published two books on recycling: Making a Green Machine (Rutgers University Press, 2011) and Recycling (MIT Press, 2019).

Jamie Lorimer is Professor of Environmental Geography at the University of Oxford. His research explores public understandings of nature and how these come to shape environmental governance. Past projects have explored the histories, politics, and cultures of wildlife conservation ranging across scales from elephants to the microbiome. Jamie is the author of Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), and More-than-Human (Routledge, 2024). His current research explores transitions in agriculture and conservation in the context of growing concerns about the relationships between farming, biodiversity loss, and global heating.

Jess McLean does research on how humans, more-than-humans, environments, and technologies interact to produce geographies of change. Her research focuses on digital technologies, water politics, climate action, and activism. As an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences (Macquarie University), she teaches smart urbanism, Anthropocene politics, and environmental justice. Her book Changing Digital Geographies: Technologies, Environments and People (Springer, 2020) has contributed to the emerging subdiscipline of digital geographies. Jess is an associate editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; she enjoys writing for and speaking with multiple audiences, within and beyond academia, and builds collaborations across disciplines and in applied settings.

Lara Newman engages in interdisciplinary research in the areas of activism, social justice, Indigenous methodologies, ocean geographies, film studies, and GIS. Her current research focuses on Black and Indigenous women with disabilities’ connections to the Pacific Ocean. Lara’s previous research includes work on Indigenous healing programmes and audience relationships with animal rights films. Lara currently works as an academic in human geography at the University of Newcastle, where her work focuses on mapping and Indigenous presence on and connections with urban Country. She also works as part of a research team in the School of Health and Society at the University of Wollongong researching Indigenous women and gender-based violence.

Catherine Oliver is a geographer and lecturer in the Sociology of Climate Change at Lancaster University. Her research interests include animals (specifically birds), more-than-human theory, and urban studies. Between 2020 and 2022, Catherine was researching the history and contemporary resurgence of backyard hens and their keepers in gardens and allotments in London. She is currently writing a book about this research, The Chicken City, to be published with Manchester University Press. Previously, she researched veganism in Britain; her first book Veganism, Archives and Animals was published with Routledge in 2021 and her second book, What Is Veganism For? will be published in 2024 with Bristol University Press. Currently, Catherine is researching the birds of Morecambe Bay and, when not teaching or writing, can be found walking and watching the seabirds and the sands, or on the 2p machines at the arcades. She can also be found online at @katiecmoliver, and on her website, https://catherinecmoliver.com/.

Jonathan Prior is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University. His research spans cultural geography, environmental philosophy, sound studies, and landscape research. He has published on the use of sonic methods in human geography; the relationship between landscape design and sonic perception; environmental aesthetics; and ecological restoration and rewilding strategies.

Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. His previous research dealt with the relations between humans, animals, and spirits among the Ifugao, the Philippines. Recently his research interests have turned towards the multispecies biopolitics of human–marine relations. He investigates this through looking at the affective relationalities of recreational lobster fishery in Norway and through studying the temporal dimensions of human–lobster relations in the commercial lobster fisheries in Maine, US.

Gillian Rose is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is the author of Feminism and Geography (Polity, 1993) and Doing Family Photography (Ashgate, 2010); the fifth edition of Visual Methodologies (Sage) was published in 2023. The year 2022 saw the publication of a collection of essays on Seeing the City Digitally, available open access from Amsterdam University Press, as well as The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change, co-authored with Monica Degen (Bloomsbury). She has written many papers on images, visualising technologies, and ways of seeing in urban, domestic, and archival spaces.

Chris Sandbrook is Professor of Conservation and Society in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. He is Director of the MPhil in Conservation Leadership at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Darwin College. He is a conservation social scientist with a range of research interests around the central theme of biodiversity conservation and its relationship with society. His current research addresses the relationship between conservation and development in theory and practice, the values and viewpoints of conservationists and how these influence conservation practice, as well as the social and political implications of new technologies for conservation.

Adam Searle is a cultural, historical, and environmental geographer at the University of Nottingham broadly researching the relations between humans, other species, and technologies. He is particularly interested in how developments in science and technology implicate the lives of animals and environmental governance within the overlapping crises of climate breakdown and mass extinction. He has a PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford, and a BSc (Hons) in Ecological and Environmental Sciences from the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, he co-founded the international, interdisciplinary Digital Ecologies research group with other early-career researchers.

Emma Tait is a data scientist and visualisation engineer with an extensive background in geographic information systems, cartography, web and database development, creative design, and visual art. Her academic interest is centred on feminist digital natures, particularly the interplay between lived human experience, fantasy worlds, and the power of play within digital games. She worked for the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative at the University of Vermont, and has a Master’s degree from the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. She is currently a product engineer for Esri.

Jonathon Turnbull is a cultural, environmental, and urban geographer at the University of Oxford. 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 received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, funded by the ESRC. This research examined the cultural and ecological fallout from the Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine. In 2020, Jonny co-founded the Digital Ecologies research group. He has conducted research into the digitisation of more-than-human worlds in diverse contexts, from urban peregrine falcons to free-roaming dogs in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. In 2021, he co-founded the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network.