Changing Digital Geographies Technologies, Environments and People
This book examines the changing digital geographies of the Anthropocene. It analyses how technologies are providing new opportunities for communication and connection, while simultaneously deepening existing problems associated with isolation, global ineq
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Changing Digital Geographies
Jessica McLean
Changing Digital Geographies Technologies, Environments and People
Jessica McLean Department of Geography and Planning Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-28306-3 ISBN 978-3-030-28307-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28307-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Photo by Katie McLean This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Rachael Ballard and Joanna McNeil at Palgrave Macmillan for their excellent editorial support. Thank you to Macquarie University for employing me during the writing of this book. Thank you to the research participants who so generously shared their knowledge, time and energy during interviews for this book. Thank you to the Critical Development and Indigenous Geographies research cluster, Department of Geography and Planning Macquarie University, for reading, commenting on and critiquing the chapter on decolonising digital geographies. Thank you to Dr. Linda Steele, University of Technology Sydney, for reading, critiquing and sharing useful research materials, for the chapter on people with disabilities and digital geographies. Thank you to Dr. Sophia Maalsen, University of Sydney, for crucial early conversations about digital geographies and for walking along winding academic roads with me, real and more-than-real. Thank you to Alan Vaarwerk at Kill your Darlings for publishing my essay Those Anthropocene Feelings that helped to extend my thinking for Chapter 8 Feeling the Digital Anthropocene. v
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