Anna Jackman

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0118 378 3934
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Lecturer in Human Geography
- Various Undergraduate Human Geography teaching responsibilities
- GES Director of Postgraduate Research Students (Human Geography)
Areas of interest
- Geographies of volume, verticality, and airspace
- Feminist geopolitics
- Drone geographies
- Political geographies of technology
Research centres and groups
Background
Anna is a feminist political geographer interested in technological visibilities, volumes, relations and futures. Anna's current work approaches these issues through the lens of the drone, exploring the unmanning of everyday, urban and military life in drone age.
Anna lead an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) New Investigator Award (December 2021 – July 2023). ‘Diversifying drone stories’ explores the ways in which the drone is (re)shaping UK airspace, with a focus on aerial (in)securities and harms. You can find out more about Anna’s research project on her webpage Drone Geographies and about her publications here.
In terms of her publications, Anna’s recent work has explored drone sensing, has sought to complicate existing understandings of volume by bringing the analytic and sensibility of gentleness to bear, and has brought into dialogue feminist geopolitics and drone scholarship to develop the idea of 'everyday droning' as a honing and homing of military technology and drone capitalism.’ Elsewhere, Anna has reflected on the ways in which both small military drones are normalised and naturalised at the tradeshow, and the (potential) implications of the advent of commercial drones on urban skylines and lives. More widely, Anna is interested in feminist understandings of territory and the methodological challenges raised by the 'volumetric' turn in and beyond human geography.
Anna is on the editorial board for the journal Digital War and on the editorial advisory board for the journal Defense & Security Analysis.
Anna was appointed as the Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 2019 Inquiry into 'Commercial and recreational drone use in the UK' and acted as an expert witness for the Defence Committee's Inquiry into the 'Domestic threat of drones'. Anna has shared her research in presentations in Westminster (on rogue drones) and to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (on drones and counter-drone technology).
Alongside building her academic publication profile, Anna continues to write accessible online pieces, including reflections on emergency service drone use, the public perception of drones, conservation drones, evolving drone threats, domestic drone futures, the Gatwick drone incident, and stopping rogue drones.
You can connect with Anna on Twitter at @ahjackman.
Academic qualifications
Anna holds a Fellowship from Advance HE.
Anna holds two UK drone qualifications, the General Visual Line of Sight Certificate (GVC) and A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC).
Anna completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2017. Anna's PhD, entitled 'Unmanned geographies: Drone visions and visions of the drone', explored the propagation of drones in particular military and emergency service contexts. The thesis adopted a dual interest in the ways in which the drone frames 'target' bodies and topographies, and the ways in which it is framed by particular trade and advocacy communities.
Publications
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2024) Domestic drones and domestic threat: urban life in the second drone age. In: Rogers, J. , (eds.) De Gruyter handbook of drone warfare. De Gruyter ISBN: 9783110741926
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 and Squire, R. (2023) Swirling, splashing, slowing: towards gentle volumes. Political Geography ISSN: 0962-6298
- Jackman, A. (2023) Vocabularies of drone sensing. In: Bratchford, G. and Zuev, D. , (eds.) Vision & Verticality: A Sociology of the Sky. Palgrave Macmillan
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Squire, R.
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2023) Political geography: approaches, concepts, futures. SAGE Publications Ltd , London. (In Press)
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2023) Everyday droning: uneven experiences of drone-enabled AI urbanism. In: Cugurullo, F. , Caprotti, F. , Cook, M. , Karvonene, A. , McGuirk, P. , Marvin, S. , (eds.) Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI. Routledge ISBN: 9781032431468
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 , Richardson, M. , Veber, M. (2023) Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ Of automated aerial solutionism. New Media and Society ISSN: 1461-7315
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 , Millner, N. , Cunliffe, A. , Laumonier, Y. , Lunstrum, E. , Paneque-Gálvez, J. , Wich, S. (2023) Protecting people and wildlife from the potential harms of drone use in biodiversity conservation: interdisciplinary dialogues. Global Social Challenges , 2 (1). pp. 68-83. ISSN: 2752-3349 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1332/IMLH5791
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2023) Drone sensing volumes. The Geographical Journal ISSN: 1475-4959 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12517
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2023) 'Manning' the 'unmanned': reapproaching the military drone through learning the/to drone. Political Geography , 104 ISSN: 0962-6298 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102894
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2022) Domestic drone futures. Political Geography , 97 ISSN: 0962-6298 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102653
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2022) Visualizations of the small military drone: normalization through ‘naturalization’. Critical Military Studies , 8 (4). pp. 339-364. ISSN: 2333-7486 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2020.1846955
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 and Brickell, K.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0638-6106 (2022) ‘Everyday droning’: towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home. Progress in Human Geography , 46 (1). pp. 156-178. ISSN: 0309-1325 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03091325211018745
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 and Jablonowski, M. (2021) Investments in the imaginary: commercial drone speculations and relations. Global Discourse , 11 (1-2). pp. 39-62. ISSN: 2043-7897 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204378920X16067521422126
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 and Squire, R. (2021) Forging volumetric methods. Area , 53 (3). pp. 492-500. ISSN: 0004-0894 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12712
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2020) Digital warfighting temporalities and drone discourse. Digital War , 1 (1-3). pp. 93-105. ISSN: 2662-1975 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s42984-020-00003-0
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 , Squire, R. , Bruun, J. , Thornton, P. (2020) Unearthing feminist territories and terrains. Political Geography , 80 ISSN: 0962-6298 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102180
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2019) Consumer drone evolutions: trends, spaces, temporalities, threats. Defense & Security Analysis , 35 (4). pp. 362-383. ISSN: 1475-1798 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2019.1675934
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2017) Sensing. Fieldsights (Theorizing the Contemporary)
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2016) Rhetorics of possibility and inevitability in commercial drone tradescapes. Geographica Helvetica , 71 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN: 2194-8798 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-71-1-2016
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Jackman, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-4955 (2015) 3-D cinema: immersive media technology. GeoJournal , 80 (6). pp. 853-866. ISSN: 0343-2521 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-015-9651-5