From 5G to drones
For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11950318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daisy Curtis (0000-0003-1436-2478, University of Exeter), Anna Jackman (0000-0003-4832-4955, University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 445-465 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03091325251345831 |
| OpenAlex | W4410889699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 101 |
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) to outline a three-part agenda. Exploring EMS and the body , we reflect on diverse bodily interactions with spectrum. In more-than-human encounters , we attend to multiple non-human relations with spectrum. In Living with EMS , we explore EMS at home and everyday spectrum practices
Drone · Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues
Positionality
Reflexivity
The Politics of Invisibility
Home
Chemical Kinship
Non-human Sensing
Feminist Geopolitics
The citizen drone
Power and space in the drone age
Data is airborne; Data is inborn
Evolving spatialities of digital life
Data centres on the Moon and other tales
A geospatial infodemic
For a techno-geography of sensing objects
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence
Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism
Embodying algorithmic war
Cyborg geographies
Unsettling feminist geopolitics
A feminist perspective on digital geographies
Maternal responsibility and blame in technological disaster
Introduction
TCBH Postgraduate Essay Prize Winner for 2007
Radio geopolitics
Inviting the stranger in
Digital geographies 1
Mapping’ and ‘doing’ critical geographies of home
Nuclear landscapes
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I
Algorithmic epistemologies and methodologies
Digital geographies, feminist relationality, Black and queer code studies
AI urbanism and feminist geopolitics
Door Locks, Wall Stickers, Fireplaces
Accounting for care within human geography
Living on with Sellafield
New tools, old abuse
The personal is political
Feminist geography, the ‘everyday’, and local–global relations
Sinking the radio ‘pirates’
Between monitoring and surveillance
Political geography III
Weathering Three Storms
The way of the flesh
Intimate technologies
Diabolic Caminos in the Desert and Cat Fights on the Río
Materials, forensics and feminist geopolitics
Rethinking affective atmospheres
Atmospheric politics
Digital ecologies
Treading carefully through tomatoes
Open-weather
Forging volumetric methods
Feminist digital geographies
Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear
Reflections on the (continued and future) importance of Indigenous geographies
Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape
Aeromobilities
Which 'being' in wellbeing? Ontology, wellness and the geographies of happiness
Feminist geopolitics and the global-intimacies of pandemic times
Feminist Geopolitics Revisited
A Feminist Geopolitics
The geography of truth and lies
Swirling, splashing, slowing
Domestic drone futures
A forest of dreams
The Commonplace Geopolitics of Conspiracy
Radio Geopolitics
Feminist Geopolitics
Towards nuclear geography
From cyborg feminism to drone feminism
Glitchy vignettes of platform urbanism
Introduction to The Sensorial Experience of the Drone
Lively robots
Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene
Networked Assemblages and Geopolitical Media
Drone sensing volumes
Manipulating Material Hydro-Worlds
Invisible radiation reveals who we are as people
Smart Spaces, Information Processing, and the Question of Intelligence
From the Radio Shack to the Cosmos
Attuning to the Chemosphere
Nuclear landscape
Decolonizing posthumanist geographies
From a View to a Kill
Checkpoint dogs
Sensitivity and Sensing
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |