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Abstract
Geographical research is increasingly focused on how digital technology shapes human-nature relations. This article explores how internet search engines and their associated algorithms and indexing technologies order and produce homogenising accounts of forest places. We put forward ‘un-indexing’ as a critical and inventive method for un-ordering and re-ordering search engine results to complicate digital perspectives on forest-society relations. We present Everything at the Forest Park, a series of four speculative catalogues we created to invite collective inquiries into the digital mediation of a forested area in Scotland – Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. Fostering a slower form of engagement with web material, the catalogues suggest how geographers and other scholars might critically repurpose, reappropriate and interrogate the algorithmically curated and advertising-oriented orderings of search engines to foster more careful and convivial forest-society relations.
Original language | English |
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Journal | cultural geographies |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Jun 2023 |
Keywords
- digital methods
- search as research
- digital ecologies
- indexing
- unindexing
- search engines
- forest restoration
- forests
- ecologies
- more-than-human
- digital place
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SUPERB: Systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest related biodiversity and ecosystem services
Gray, J. (Primary Investigator) & Bounegru, L. (Co-Investigator)
1/12/2021 → 30/11/2025
Project: Research