Avian Sentinels: Albatrosses, Tracking Technologies and Human-Animal Relations in the Anthropocene

在远离人类中心的海洋环境中，传感器和合作者之间的区别至关重要，在那里，很少有人类合作者能够在何时以及如何出错时进行沟通。将这些环境称为“遥远”，信天翁是遥远存在的最好例子，可以重现一种信念，即它们远离人类活动或与人类活动无关。跟踪基础设施有可能以新的方式挑战这一点，通过证明环境变化，而不是抽象的“发生”，正在发生和影响的东西，或某人，在一个位置上进行交流。我的目标是调查这些海洋空间和人类动物关系是如何通过跟踪新配置和可见的，以及这可能如何让人们对这些空间有不同的看法。到目前为止，几乎没有持续的调查，在治理模式跟踪基础设施颁布。这就需要关注这些基础设施如何影响社会和政治对它们所呈现的现象的反应。在与科学家的合作中，我将探索这些反应是否可以重新定向，以更好地解决共同居住在这些空间的人类和非人类行为者的利益。地理文献已经雄辩地处理了城市中多物种同居或同居的问题（Ginn，2014; Hinchliffe &Whatmore，2006; Kirksey等人，2018）和农村或自然（Buller，2008; Crowley，Hinchliffe，& McDonald，2017; Srinivasan，2014）空间，但在这些环境中，这些问题同样紧迫。

The distinction-between sensor and collaborator-is critical in oceanic environments distant from human centres, where fewer human collaboratorsexist to communicate when and how things are going wrong. Designating these environments as 'remote', and albatrosses as the superlative exampleof remote existence, can reproduce a conviction that they are far removed from or inconsequential to human activities. Tracking infrastructures have thepotential to challenge this in novel ways, by demonstrating that environmental change, rather than abstractly 'happening', is happening to and affectingsomething, or someone, in a position to communicate.I aim to investigate how these oceanic spaces and human-animal relations are newly configured and made visible through tracking, and how this mightallow thinking differently about these spaces. To date, there has been little sustained enquiry in to the modes of governance tracking infrastructuresenact. This warrants attention to how these infrastructures shape social and political responses to the phenomena they render visible. In collaboration withscientists, I will explore whether these responses could be redirected to better address the interests of the human and nonhuman actors that co-habit thesespaces. The geographical literature has dealt eloquently with questions of multispecies cohabitation, or conviviality, in urban (Ginn, 2014; Hinchliffe &Whatmore, 2006; Kirksey et al., 2018) and rural or seminatural (Buller, 2008; Crowley, Hinchliffe, & McDonald, 2017; Srinivasan, 2014) spaces, but less soin these environments, where such questions are equally pressing.