[Air-L] Can we 'reduce, reuse, refuse'.. the digital? Digital Politics Summer School, 5-6 June, online

[Adi Kuntsman]

Can we 'reduce, reuse, refuse'.. the digital? Digital Politics Summer School, 5-6 June, 2023 Our third online Digital Politics Summer School is here! The school will consist of keynotes and workshops, and will offer participants a possibility to participate in a follow-up publication. Attendance is free but places are limited - pleaseclick here to register. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-we-reduce-reuse-refuse-the-digital-online-summer-school-tickets-629849375437 
Digital technologies can inflict substantial human and environmental harms: from extractivist economies of mining to toxic e-waste; from unsafe and oppressive working conditions to rising carbon and heat emissions and electricity use; from individal and collective surveillance to economic subordination and emotional depletion. These harms are unevenly distributed and deeply connected to social, economic and racial injustices. And yet, conversations about digital sustainability, climate change and environmental justice rarely use the logic of 'refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle' with regards to digital technologies. Scholarship and policy on digital sustainability continues to insist on green digital growth, instead of posing crucial questions of degrowth and reduction. This summer school brings togetherprinciples of environmentally driven degrowth; decolonial and anti-racist environmental justice; and digital disengagement and opt out to explore whether and how we can reduce, reuse and perhaps even refuse the digital.
 Please click here for Programme and speakers https://digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/can-we-reduce-reuse-refuse-the-digital-digital-politics-summer-school-5-6-june-2023


 
  
 
  
 
Dr Adi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics
Programme Leader, MA in International Relations and Global Communications
and MSc in Digital Society ; Coordinator, PhD pathway in Digital Politics
Department of History, Politics and Philosophy | Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building|  Manchester | M15 6LL| Web | Digital Politics Blog
 
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics
The University of Brighton, June-July 2023 
 
  
 
Recent publications:
Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement(co-authored with Esperanza Miyake, 2022,
Westminster U Press) is fully open access. Read the review in LSE blog 
 

Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures (co-edited with Liu Xin, 2023,
Emerald) is forthoming in May 2023. Listen to the podcast dedicated to the book
 
  
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