Taking a decolonial approach, Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures develops an interdisciplinary field that shifts the conversation about digital environmental sustainability from profit and efficiency to environmental damage, and the geographies and violence of colonialism, land dispossession, extraction of natural and human resources, and capitalism.
Aims and scope
Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures develops an interdisciplinary field that shifts the conversation about digital environmental sustainability from profit and efficiency to geographies of in/justice and the colonially and decolonisation of digital scholarship and practice. As digital economies grow at an unprecedented speed the links between global environmental degradation and digital industries become more apparent as does their intersection with global environmental injustice. However, when these questions are addressed they are typically framed as problems of cost and efficiency where the environment is simply seen to provide material condition for the operation of digital economy.
Books in this series directly acknowledge an important and pressing issue: that the materiality of digital technologies can inflict substantial environmental damages: the ever-growing extraction of resources needed to produce digital devices; the toxicity of e-waste; and the rapidly increasing energy demand, while the the geography of digital environmental harms is unevenly distributed and is often aligned with geographies of colonialism land dispossession extraction of natural and human resources and the violence of industrialisation and capitalism.
The series launch webinar can be viewed here: Series Launch Webinar
The mission of the series is to support critical engagements between scholars and artists working in the field of digital and environmental sustainability. The series welcomes monographs and edited collections on topics arising at the intersection of elements such as:
- Digital materialities
- Histories, economies and politics of digital environmental harms
- Interdisciplinary and anti-colonial approaches to digital environmental sustainability
- Decolonising digital scholarship and practice
- Affirmative actions, reparations and anti-colonial digital solutions
- Green computing, sustainable design and design justice
- Research and creative practice on digital sustainability in the arts and digitisation in creative industries
- Corporate accountability
- Digital technologies and environmental activism in the Global South
- Methodologies and approaches to decarbonisation of digital communication
- Interdisciplinary methodologies in digital media, environmental science, and computing
- Centring digital environmental harms in sustainability practice and policy making
- Lived experiences of social marginalisation and digital environmental harms
- Digital technologies and environmental justice
This title is aligned with our fairer society goal
We are passionate about working with researchers globally to deliver a fairer, more inclusive society. This perhaps has never been more important than in today’s divided world.
