dr. C.R. Lynch (Casey)

Assistant Professor
BMS-TPS-KiTeS
Ravelijn 5240
c.r.lynch@utwente.nl
+31534899479
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I am a digital, urban, and political geographer. My work examines how processes of digitalization are materialized, territorialized, experienced, and potentially contested in cities. I aim to critique dominant processes of digitalization—in particular those based on surveillance, extraction, and corporate control—while also exploring alternative approaches oriented around social and economic justice and sustainability. My work is primarily ethnographic and interpretive and explores themes such as:

  • Critical and feminist perspectives on urban AI and robotics
  • Commons-based and cooperative models of digitalization in urban life
  • Theories and practices of urban democracy and digitalization
  • Emerging technologies (AI, robotics, blockchain, etc.) in imaginaries of urban futures

Prior to joining the University of Twente I was an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno (2019-2022) and a visiting scholar at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain (2017-2019). I received a BA in International Development Studies and Contemporary Studies from the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University in Canada and a MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Arizona in the United States. My work has received funding from the US National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship, and has been published in journals like Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, Environment and Planning D, Urban Geography, Regional Studies, and others.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Robotics
    • Artificial Intelligence

  • Social Sciences

    • Intelligence
    • Geography
    • Logic
    • Identity
    • Politics

  • Arts and Humanities

    • Spatiality

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Publications

2024
Robotics in place and the places of robotics: productive tensions across human geography and human–robot interaction (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Lynch, C. R., Manalo, B. N. & Muñoz-Viso, À.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01995-zRaising the carbonized forest: Science and technologies of singularization (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Turnhout, E. & Lynch, C. R.https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825241255685Evolving spatialities of digital life: Troubling the smart city/home divide, Article 100085. Lynch, C. R. & Sweeney, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100085Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure, 66-84. Lynch, C. R. & Muñoz-Viso, A.https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231219699
2023
Evolving spatialities of digital life: troubling the boundaries of the smart city/home dividesIn AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research 2023. Sweeney, M. E. & Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13500Robotics, Affective Displacement, and the Automation of CareIn Geographies of Displacement/s. Routledge. Lynch, C. R., Bissell, D., House-Peters, L. & Del Casino, V.Perceptions of Intelligence in Urban AI and the Contingent Logics of Real Estate Estimate AlgorithmsIn Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI (pp. 277-291). Taylor & Francis. Lynch, C. R. & Del Casino, V.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877-21
2022
Glitch Epistemology and the Question of (Artificial) Intelligence: Perceptions, Encounters, Subjectivities, 379-383. Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221102952Advancing Socially-Aware Navigation for Public SpacesIn RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Social, Asocial, and Antisocial Robots, Article 9900653 (pp. 1015-1022). IEEE. Shahrezaie, R. S., Manalo, B. N., Brantley, A. G., Lynch, C. R. & Feil-Seifer, D.https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900653Robotics, Affective Displacement, and the Automation of Care, 684-691. Lynch, C., Bissell, D., House-Peters, L. & Del Casino Jr. , V. J.https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1985953Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis and Brett Story (eds), Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780774862387 (paper); ISBN: 9780774862394 (ebook). Lynch, C. R.https://antipodeonline.org/2022/04/12/digital-lives-in-the-global-city/Digital Geographies and Everyday Life: Space, Materiality, AgencyIn The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography (pp. 196-206). Routledge. Lynch, C. R. & Farrokhi, B.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038849-19
2021
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i, 945-965. Sammler, K. & Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211042374Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jefferson, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2020, 264 pp., paperback $34.65 (ISBN 978‐1517909239), e9-e10. Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12689Artificial Emotional Intelligence and the Intimate Politics of Robotic Sociality, 184-201. Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2021.1985853Internet infrastructure and the commons: grassroots knowledge sharing in Barcelona, 1868-1877. Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1869200Critical geographies of social robotics, Article 100010. Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2021.100010
2020
Unruly digital subjects: Social entanglements, identity, and the politics of technological expertise, Article 100001. Lynch, C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2020.100001

Other contributions

Forthcoming Publications

Del Casino, Vincent, and Casey R. Lynch (Accepted, forthcoming) Robots, Robotic Technologies, and Labor Geographies. Handbook of Labor Geography (Edward Elgar Publishing, ed. Andrew Herod).

Lynch, Casey R., & Kerri Jean Ormerod. (accepted, forthcoming). Science. The Wilely-Blackwell Companion to Social and Cultural Geography. (eds. Jamie Winders and Ishan Ashutosh).

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