ABSTRACT
This chapter makes an argument for the need for a critical reorientation of scholarly work on location-related technologies – one that adopts an expanded understanding of these technologies that extends beyond the present (and at times quite narrow) concern for “locative media” as closely associated with smartphones to explore both old and new forms of location-sensitive technologies and that retrains its critical focus away from the established markets and socio-technical contexts of the “Global North” and towards the “Global South.” Central to this study of location technologies (in a more expansive sense), we argue, is a concern for greater internationalization, careful scrutiny of both terms in the phrase “location technologies,” and a critical focus on everyday practice, infrastructures and geopolitical contestation.
