Geographies of science and technology II: In the critical zone

Mahony, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6377-413X (2022) Geographies of science and technology II: In the critical zone. Progress in Human Geography, 46 (2). pp. 705-715. ISSN 0309-1325

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Abstract

Amidst an unfolding environmental crisis, suspicion about the totalising and homogenising spatial grammars of the ‘Anthropocene’ has spurred the development of a new spatial concept which, its proponents hope, can better ground the science and politics of environmental change in local geographies. In this second report on science and technology, I use this concept as a lens onto recent work in geography concerned with the space-times of ‘environmental’ sciences and technologies, broadly construed. The notion of the ‘critical zone’, and the practice of ‘critical zone science’, directs our attention to geographical work on situated practices of interdisciplinarity, on new modes of producing and working with ‘big data’, and on the volumetric, vertical and subterranean spaces of technoscientific practice. Emerging research has also engaged with the technologisation of critical zone management, while new insights into ‘lively capital’ and nonhuman labour push us to see the critical zone not just as an increasingly technologised space, but as itself a technology of human autopoiesis. Amidst the febrile politics of sustaining this planetary living-system, new questions are being asked about what it means to be critical in the critical zone.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: science,anthropocene,critical zone,data,geoengineering,technology,verticality,geography, planning and development ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2022 12:30
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2022 03:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83403
DOI: 10.1177/03091325211073142

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