Postdigital Nature Connection

Entangling Ecologies and Technologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-35230-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Postdigital Science and Education

This edited volume explores how digital technologies and human–nature relationships are increasingly entangled, reshaping what it means to connect with nature in the twenty-first century. Introducing postdigital nature connection as a conceptual and empirical field, it challenges binaries between the digital and the natural, positioning nature relations within a hybrid, hypermediated sociotechnical landscape. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, contributions examine themes such as hybridity, AI–nature relations, datafication, and decolonial approaches, offering new tools and insights for researchers, educators, and policymakers navigating the cultural, political, and technological forces shaping ecological futures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, Jack

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- Intorudction.- Postdigital nature connection.- Towards a postdigital listening ecopedagogy for nature connection.- Pedagogical entanglements with postdigital outdoor and environmental education: Plug and play ideas for educators.- Rooted Resistance: Cultivating Collective Power for Food Justice through NICs and Gaia-Trained AI.- Ecohermeneutics as a path to postdigital nature connectedness.- What Living, Thriving, and Dying Well Asks of Education: A Decolonial Diffractive Inquiry.- You belong to the universe: From ecological to planetary identity through digital nature experiences.- E-wilding and the Postdigital: Management, Datafication and our Experiences of Nature.- The Uses and Abuses of Technology for Nature Connectedness.- Reconnecting Through Technology: Enhancing Nature Relationships via Digital Placemaking.- The gap between model and world: an inquiry into mathematical and digital methods in ecology.- Indigenous Pacific responses to ecopedagogy.- Missing Pieces of Outdoor Culture and Heritage in the Postdigital Age.- Nature-Based Learning: Insights from the Menstrie Catchment, Scotland.- Conclusion - Nature connection and the postdigital: Where to from here.

Über Autor(innen)

Jack Reed is Head of Research at Estyn, the education and training inspectorate for Wales, UK. He previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Exeter, UK, where he developed and prepared this book. His research has investigated how human–nature relations inform policy, practice, and regional development, emphasizing socio-economic dimensions of nature recovery. His work has also extended to postdigital theory, analyzing how networked technologies influence engagements with nature. Building on his 2023 PhD from Edinburgh, UK, he has published extensively across scholarly and policy platforms.