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Changing Digital Geographies

Technologies, Environments and People

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Authors:
  1. Jessica McLean

    1. Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  • Explores the notion of the real and more-than-real in changing digital geographies
  • Examines the philosophical, political and practical constraints of co-produced online and offline spaces
  • Offers distinct empirical material analysis including a relational lens and ethical considerations
  • Analyses current activist interventions from collaborative research that connects academic theory with vibrant practice

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 1-21

  3. Framing the More-Than-Real in the Anthropocene

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 23-46

  4. Digital Action, Human Rights and Technology

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 47-64

  5. Digital Rights and Digital Justice: Defining and Negotiating Shifting Human–Technology Relations

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 65-89

  6. Decolonising Digital Technologies? Digital Geographies and Indigenous Peoples

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 91-111

  7. Changing Climates Digitally: More-Than-Real Environments

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 113-137

  8. Delivering Green Digital Geographies? More-Than-Real Corporate Sustainability and Digital Technologies

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 139-158

  9. Feeling the Digital Anthropocene

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 159-175

  10. Feminist Digital Spaces

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 177-201

  11. Australian Feminist Digital Activism

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 203-228

  12. ‘It’s Just Coding’: Disability Activism In, and About, Digital Spaces

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 229-246

  13. Conclusion: Thinking with the More-Than-Real

    • Jessica McLean
    Pages 247-256

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 257-267
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About this book

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 inequity and environmental harm. By offering a reading of digital technologies as ‘more-than-real’, the author argues that the productive and destructive possibilities of digital geographies are changing important aspects of human and non-human worlds. Like the more-than-human notion and how it emphasises interconnections of humans and non-humans in the world, the more-than-real inverts the diminishing that accompanies use of the terms ‘virtual’ and ‘immaterial’ as applied to digital spaces.


Digital geographies are fluid, amorphous spaces made of contradictory possibilities in this Anthropocene moment. By sharing experiences of people involved in trying to improve digital geographies, this book offers stories of hope and possibility alongside stories of grief and despair. The more-than-real concept can help us understand such work – by feminists, digital rights activists, disability rights activists, environmentalists and more. Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book will appeal to academics, university students, and activists who are keen to learn from other people’s efforts to change digital geographies, and who also seek to remake digital geographies.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Jessica McLean

About the author

Jessica McLean is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research focuses on two areas: digital geographies and water cultures. Both research areas call for critical, engaged and situated research praxis, building on partnership approaches with community groups and individuals who are working in Indigenous, feminist and digital rights contexts. Jessica has published in a range of academic and accessible publications on topics relating to environmental justice, digital lives and the Anthropocene.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Changing Digital Geographies

  • Book Subtitle: Technologies, Environments and People

  • Authors: Jessica McLean

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28307-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28306-3Published: 18 September 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28309-4Published: 18 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28307-0Published: 04 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Culture and Gender, Human Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Environment Studies

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