Anna Jackman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1961908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Jackman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackman |
| SIGNATURE | JACKMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4832-4955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Brave New World: Emerging Technology Narratives of Agricultural Robotics in UK Media and Their Implications for Responsible Innovation
While robotics has been identified by some institutions as potentially transformative for agriculture, scholars have argued that the technology could have significant negative impacts. Many agricultural robots are in the early stages of development, commercialisation and adoption – it is therefore important to anticipate the potential impacts of these technologies and substantively engage stakeholders for responsible innovation. However, where su…
For a Feminist Geopolitics of Aerial Bombardment and Place Annihilation in the Drone Age
In its attention to urban aerial bombardment in World War II, geographer Kenneth Hewitt’s work charts the annihilation of place while carefully centering the devastation of civilian life therein. Following the entrenchment of drones as fixtures of contemporary skies, this article reflects on Hewitt’s work in the context of the contemporary drone age. It identifies resonance between Hewitt’s contributions and the concerns of feminist geopolitics, …
Cohabitations: Urban artificial intelligences (AIs) and animals
From aerial drones and delivery robots to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligences (AIs) increasingly share and (re)shape the spaces of everyday life.
From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) underpins and informs everyday life. Foregrounding particular portions of the EMS (radio, gamma), geographers theorise spectrum as infrastructure, territory/resource to manage, non-human and material. Extending this, we think across spectrum while bringing it into novel dialogue with feminist geopolitics. Pursuing a feminist geopolitics of the EMS, we draw on examples of spectrum-reliant technologies (5G, drones…
Techno-legal geographies: Consumer Drone Misuse and Harms
Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From their outfitting with improvised weapons to the deployment of drones to harass individuals, both incidents involving consumer drones and the (potential) harms accompanying them, have diversified. Interested in emerging techno-legal geographies of consum…
Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
Drones are a growing feature of everyday airspace, with more-than-military drones deployed across diverse civil, commercial, and recreational applications. Yet, from reports of drones flying in proximity to manned aircraft and transporting contraband into prisons to drones used to spy on ex-partners, so too have concerns grown around drone incidents and misuse. Drawing on the testimony of Mass Observation Archive (MOA) correspondents, this articl…
Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, excitement broke out around the potential for drones to generate aerial solutions to devilish pandemic problems. But despite the hype, pandemic drones largely failed to take to the sky and far from the scale initially imagined. This article pursues the failure of the pandemic drone to materialise, showing how it nevertheless functioned as a locus of experimentation for remote logics and processes. As su…
Exploring inclusion in UK agricultural robotics development: Who, how, and why
The global agricultural sector faces a significant number of challenges for a sustainable future, and one of the tools proposed to address these challenges is the use of automation in agriculture. In particular, robotic systems for agricultural tasks are being designed, tested, and increasingly commercialised in many countries. Much touted as an environmentally beneficial technology with the ability to improve data management and reduce the use o…
AI urbanism and feminist geopolitics: Making space for diverse practices, actors and agencies
Protecting people and wildlife from the potential harms of drone use in biodiversity conservation: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
In this policy intervention, we recount the process of producing a policy briefing targeting researchers and practitioners who use drones in biodiversity conservation. We use the writing process as a springboard to think through the ways that interdisciplinary exchange has and might further inform the ethical use of new technologies, such as drones. This approach is vital, we argue, because while drones may be deployed as tools that enable or emp…
Manning' the 'unmanned: Reapproaching the military drone through learning the/to drone
A global turn to the drone is underway. While automation creep and the rise of autonomy necessitate critical attention to the non-human, drone labour or ‘manning’ nonetheless remains a constitutive part of, and limitation upon, the drone assemblage. Situated in a context of personnel shortage, this article pursues an embodied geopolitics of drone labour. Thinking with literature urging the ‘witnessing’ of drone strikes and understanding of the in…
Swirling, splashing, slowing: Towards gentle volumes
Drone sensing volumes
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Following their establishment as icons of contemporary warfare, drones are increasingly deployed in a range of more-than-military applications. Interrogating this diverse ecosystem of platforms, scholars have examined the ways in which drones see, sense and manoeuvre, asserting that they enable distinct perspectives and the rendering visible of expanded and extended sensory terrains. In parallel,…
Domestic drone futures
Visualizations of the small military drone: Normalization Through 'Naturalization
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Responding to the ‘unmanning’ of contemporary warfare, interdisciplinary scholarship has interrogated the human operators and non-human actors underpinning the drone, and their wide-ranging ethical, geopolitical, and legal implications. A key facet of extant drone debates surrounds drone vision – both as it operationally visualizes and is fetishized. While comparatively nascent, scholars have beg…
Investments in the imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations
Drones are increasingly understood and imagined as important actors, inhabiting and transforming aerial space. From their entrenched establishment within battlefield operations, drones have spawned into a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications, increasingly punctuating domestic urban airspace. While occupying a status as exemplars of urban innovation, the drone poses, and remains bound to, a range of techno-cultural contestations – from …
Everyday droning: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home
We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of ‘everyday droning’ as the honing and homing of military techno…
Forging volumetric methods
The last two decades have seen a “volumetric turn” within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three‐dimensional terms – with complex heights and depths – rather than as a series of two‐dimensional areas or surfaces. While there is an increasingly diverse and rich set of scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities in the air, oceans, ice, mountains, …
Unearthing feminist territories and terrains
Consumer drone evolutions: Trends, spaces, temporalities, threats
While the drone has become synonymous with the War on Terror, the asymmetric iconography of the battlefield is shifting. Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) drones are increasingly prevalent features of global battlefields, employed by non-state actors in both visualising such spaces, and the directing and inflicting of harm. As such usage increases, so too do concerns around their evolving adoption, adaptation, and potential portability …
Rhetorics of possibility and inevitability in commercial drone tradescapes
Drones have been posited as the "signature device of the present moment" (Noys, 2014). Whilst research into the proliferation of drones in military and defence spheres is gaining notable momentum, drones in commercial and "civilian" contexts "have remained widely unnoticed in academic research" (Klauser and Pedrozo, 2015:285). Complementing emergent scholarship in this area, this paper seeks to both explore and assert the trade show as a valuable…
D cinema: Immersive media technology
The Ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics provides an insightful overview of the sub-discipline of critical geopolitics. The collection encompasses a critical interrogation of the sub
Unearthing feminist territories and terrains
Everyday droning: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home
We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of ‘everyday droning’ as the honing and homing of military techno…
Forging volumetric methods
The last two decades have seen a “volumetric turn” within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three‐dimensional terms – with complex heights and depths – rather than as a series of two‐dimensional areas or surfaces. While there is an increasingly diverse and rich set of scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities in the air, oceans, ice, mountains, …
The Ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics provides an insightful overview of the sub-discipline of critical geopolitics. The collection encompasses a critical interrogation of the sub
Domestic drone futures
Visualizations of the small military drone: Normalization Through 'Naturalization
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Responding to the ‘unmanning’ of contemporary warfare, interdisciplinary scholarship has interrogated the human operators and non-human actors underpinning the drone, and their wide-ranging ethical, geopolitical, and legal implications. A key facet of extant drone debates surrounds drone vision – both as it operationally visualizes and is fetishized. While comparatively nascent, scholars have beg…
Swirling, splashing, slowing: Towards gentle volumes
Investments in the imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations
Drones are increasingly understood and imagined as important actors, inhabiting and transforming aerial space. From their entrenched establishment within battlefield operations, drones have spawned into a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications, increasingly punctuating domestic urban airspace. While occupying a status as exemplars of urban innovation, the drone poses, and remains bound to, a range of techno-cultural contestations – from …
AI urbanism and feminist geopolitics: Making space for diverse practices, actors and agencies
Manning' the 'unmanned: Reapproaching the military drone through learning the/to drone
A global turn to the drone is underway. While automation creep and the rise of autonomy necessitate critical attention to the non-human, drone labour or ‘manning’ nonetheless remains a constitutive part of, and limitation upon, the drone assemblage. Situated in a context of personnel shortage, this article pursues an embodied geopolitics of drone labour. Thinking with literature urging the ‘witnessing’ of drone strikes and understanding of the in…
Drone sensing volumes
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Following their establishment as icons of contemporary warfare, drones are increasingly deployed in a range of more-than-military applications. Interrogating this diverse ecosystem of platforms, scholars have examined the ways in which drones see, sense and manoeuvre, asserting that they enable distinct perspectives and the rendering visible of expanded and extended sensory terrains. In parallel,…
From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) underpins and informs everyday life. Foregrounding particular portions of the EMS (radio, gamma), geographers theorise spectrum as infrastructure, territory/resource to manage, non-human and material. Extending this, we think across spectrum while bringing it into novel dialogue with feminist geopolitics. Pursuing a feminist geopolitics of the EMS, we draw on examples of spectrum-reliant technologies (5G, drones…
D cinema: Immersive media technology
Protecting people and wildlife from the potential harms of drone use in biodiversity conservation: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
In this policy intervention, we recount the process of producing a policy briefing targeting researchers and practitioners who use drones in biodiversity conservation. We use the writing process as a springboard to think through the ways that interdisciplinary exchange has and might further inform the ethical use of new technologies, such as drones. This approach is vital, we argue, because while drones may be deployed as tools that enable or emp…
Exploring inclusion in UK agricultural robotics development: Who, how, and why
The global agricultural sector faces a significant number of challenges for a sustainable future, and one of the tools proposed to address these challenges is the use of automation in agriculture. In particular, robotic systems for agricultural tasks are being designed, tested, and increasingly commercialised in many countries. Much touted as an environmentally beneficial technology with the ability to improve data management and reduce the use o…
The Ashgate research companion to critical geopolitics
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics provides an insightful overview of the sub-discipline of critical geopolitics. The collection encompasses a critical interrogation of the sub
D cinema: Immersive media technology
Rhetorics of possibility and inevitability in commercial drone tradescapes
Drones have been posited as the "signature device of the present moment" (Noys, 2014). Whilst research into the proliferation of drones in military and defence spheres is gaining notable momentum, drones in commercial and "civilian" contexts "have remained widely unnoticed in academic research" (Klauser and Pedrozo, 2015:285). Complementing emergent scholarship in this area, this paper seeks to both explore and assert the trade show as a valuable…
Consumer drone evolutions: Trends, spaces, temporalities, threats
While the drone has become synonymous with the War on Terror, the asymmetric iconography of the battlefield is shifting. Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) drones are increasingly prevalent features of global battlefields, employed by non-state actors in both visualising such spaces, and the directing and inflicting of harm. As such usage increases, so too do concerns around their evolving adoption, adaptation, and potential portability …
Unearthing feminist territories and terrains
Investments in the imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations
Drones are increasingly understood and imagined as important actors, inhabiting and transforming aerial space. From their entrenched establishment within battlefield operations, drones have spawned into a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications, increasingly punctuating domestic urban airspace. While occupying a status as exemplars of urban innovation, the drone poses, and remains bound to, a range of techno-cultural contestations – from …
Everyday droning: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home
We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of ‘everyday droning’ as the honing and homing of military techno…
Forging volumetric methods
The last two decades have seen a “volumetric turn” within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three‐dimensional terms – with complex heights and depths – rather than as a series of two‐dimensional areas or surfaces. While there is an increasingly diverse and rich set of scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities in the air, oceans, ice, mountains, …
Domestic drone futures
Visualizations of the small military drone: Normalization Through 'Naturalization
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Responding to the ‘unmanning’ of contemporary warfare, interdisciplinary scholarship has interrogated the human operators and non-human actors underpinning the drone, and their wide-ranging ethical, geopolitical, and legal implications. A key facet of extant drone debates surrounds drone vision – both as it operationally visualizes and is fetishized. While comparatively nascent, scholars have beg…
Protecting people and wildlife from the potential harms of drone use in biodiversity conservation: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
In this policy intervention, we recount the process of producing a policy briefing targeting researchers and practitioners who use drones in biodiversity conservation. We use the writing process as a springboard to think through the ways that interdisciplinary exchange has and might further inform the ethical use of new technologies, such as drones. This approach is vital, we argue, because while drones may be deployed as tools that enable or emp…
Manning' the 'unmanned: Reapproaching the military drone through learning the/to drone
A global turn to the drone is underway. While automation creep and the rise of autonomy necessitate critical attention to the non-human, drone labour or ‘manning’ nonetheless remains a constitutive part of, and limitation upon, the drone assemblage. Situated in a context of personnel shortage, this article pursues an embodied geopolitics of drone labour. Thinking with literature urging the ‘witnessing’ of drone strikes and understanding of the in…
Swirling, splashing, slowing: Towards gentle volumes
Drone sensing volumes
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Following their establishment as icons of contemporary warfare, drones are increasingly deployed in a range of more-than-military applications. Interrogating this diverse ecosystem of platforms, scholars have examined the ways in which drones see, sense and manoeuvre, asserting that they enable distinct perspectives and the rendering visible of expanded and extended sensory terrains. In parallel,…
Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, excitement broke out around the potential for drones to generate aerial solutions to devilish pandemic problems. But despite the hype, pandemic drones largely failed to take to the sky and far from the scale initially imagined. This article pursues the failure of the pandemic drone to materialise, showing how it nevertheless functioned as a locus of experimentation for remote logics and processes. As su…
Exploring inclusion in UK agricultural robotics development: Who, how, and why
The global agricultural sector faces a significant number of challenges for a sustainable future, and one of the tools proposed to address these challenges is the use of automation in agriculture. In particular, robotic systems for agricultural tasks are being designed, tested, and increasingly commercialised in many countries. Much touted as an environmentally beneficial technology with the ability to improve data management and reduce the use o…
AI urbanism and feminist geopolitics: Making space for diverse practices, actors and agencies
From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) underpins and informs everyday life. Foregrounding particular portions of the EMS (radio, gamma), geographers theorise spectrum as infrastructure, territory/resource to manage, non-human and material. Extending this, we think across spectrum while bringing it into novel dialogue with feminist geopolitics. Pursuing a feminist geopolitics of the EMS, we draw on examples of spectrum-reliant technologies (5G, drones…
Techno-legal geographies: Consumer Drone Misuse and Harms
Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From their outfitting with improvised weapons to the deployment of drones to harass individuals, both incidents involving consumer drones and the (potential) harms accompanying them, have diversified. Interested in emerging techno-legal geographies of consum…
Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
Drones are a growing feature of everyday airspace, with more-than-military drones deployed across diverse civil, commercial, and recreational applications. Yet, from reports of drones flying in proximity to manned aircraft and transporting contraband into prisons to drones used to spy on ex-partners, so too have concerns grown around drone incidents and misuse. Drawing on the testimony of Mass Observation Archive (MOA) correspondents, this articl…
A Brave New World: Emerging Technology Narratives of Agricultural Robotics in UK Media and Their Implications for Responsible Innovation
While robotics has been identified by some institutions as potentially transformative for agriculture, scholars have argued that the technology could have significant negative impacts. Many agricultural robots are in the early stages of development, commercialisation and adoption – it is therefore important to anticipate the potential impacts of these technologies and substantively engage stakeholders for responsible innovation. However, where su…
For a Feminist Geopolitics of Aerial Bombardment and Place Annihilation in the Drone Age
In its attention to urban aerial bombardment in World War II, geographer Kenneth Hewitt’s work charts the annihilation of place while carefully centering the devastation of civilian life therein. Following the entrenchment of drones as fixtures of contemporary skies, this article reflects on Hewitt’s work in the context of the contemporary drone age. It identifies resonance between Hewitt’s contributions and the concerns of feminist geopolitics, …
Cohabitations: Urban artificial intelligences (AIs) and animals
From aerial drones and delivery robots to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligences (AIs) increasingly share and (re)shape the spaces of everyday life.
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