Tina Harris

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Tina Harris is a critical geographer whose work interrogates the intersections of technology, labour, and mobility, with a particular focus on aeromobilities and automation. Her research examines how capital shapes human-machine relations in the aviation industry, revealing the uneven power dynamics embedded in technological change. In her highly cited 2022 paper, "Dispositions towards automation: Capital, technology, and labour relations in aeromobilities," Harris challenges celebratory narratives of automation by showing how it reinforces existing labour hierarchies and capital accumulation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, she demonstrates that automation is not a neutral technological shift but a contested process that reconfigures worker autonomy, skill, and precarity. This work has garnered 12 citations and is recognized for bringing a geographical lens to debates on AI and robotics, bridging labour geography with science and technology studies. Harris’s contributions are vital for understanding how global air travel—a linchpin of contemporary mobility—is being remade through automation in ways that often deepen inequality. Her scholarship offers students and researchers a critical framework for analyzing the social and spatial consequences of technological change in transport and logistics.