@jonpughislands
Emeritus Prof of Island Studies. ‘Anthropocene Islands’. https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/m/10.16997/book52/ ‘World as Abyss’. https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/dr26z151g All papers https://newcastle.academia.edu/JonathanPugh
3/3
Only 6–9 papers per day to prioritise sustained discussion.
Selected abstracts will be considered for publication in the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies.
£60 registration.
Send abstracts to: Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk
2/3 The conference builds on debates questioning the relational turn in island studies.
Are relational ontologies becoming overly productivist — rendering islands and islanders too available? We seek sharp, discussable interventions. #opacity #negation #fugitivty #nonrelation …
1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique
Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027
We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought
500-word abstracts due 1 May 2026
2/3 The conference builds on debates questioning the relational turn in island studies.
Are relational ontologies becoming overly productivist — rendering islands and islanders too available? We seek sharp, discussable interventions. #opacity #negation #fugitivty #nonrelation …
Between endings and beginnings: ‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography
Ben Anderson
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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge
Ben Bowsher
#OpenAccess
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Great news!
With thanks to the editors and reviewers @proghumgeog.bsky.social, as well as my thesis supervisors @whatisrobshaw.bsky.social, @jonpughislands.bsky.social, and Matt Davies. Once again really pleased my first article is out. It can be found here:
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'Anthropocene Islands' section of Island Studies Journal
islandstudiesjournal.org/post/2137-an...
Next Island Studies Reading Group
Friday 30th Jan, 3pm London Time
Reading Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Email me if want to join: Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk
#islands
Climate change and the limits of urban thought
Savannah Cox
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Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists
Elaine Stratford, Carol Farbotko, Phillipa Watson, Taukiei Kitara, Juno Berthelsen, Christopher Cozier, Ayano Ginoza, Julie Edel Hardenberg & Maria Hnraki
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#islands
Deadline for submission: 19 February 2026
Contacts for this are
Tom Scheunemann
tom.scheunemann@sk.hs-fulda.de
Fiona Schrading
schrading@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Please submit your panel or paper proposals via the conference website:
eisa-net.org/pec-2026/
Excited to give the keynote at the Lucknow Summit 2025 The Geopolitics of Climate Change: the genesis of ecological doom loops, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. 19-21 Dec, 2025.
The title of my talk is:- Three ways of thinking with islandness in contemporary critique
Really looking forward to talking at the Conference - Reimagining Island Borders - held at Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University, 16 January 2026
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis
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Quite a lot of interest in idea of online #islandness theory conference. A few folks want it more expansive, incl oceanic and various related geographies as generative of contemporary critique.
Just in the scoping stage, so message me if this interests you.
Really excited to be part of the teaching team for this new summer school #islands #islandness
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya
Kenny Cupers
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
The Shepherd’s Black Sheep: African American Pastoral Theology in the Age of Afropessimism
Jay-Paul Hinds
Plenary address given at the 2024 Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Study Conference.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I have a new article, published #openaccess
Human geography: Not ending but worlding the modern subject in new ways
Dialogues in Human Geography
Volume 15, Issue 3
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Excellent new paper!
On the drag of the ship(ped)
Shaida Akbarian, P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods
Social and Cultural Geography
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Small islands and the large temporal questions: Eriksen’s contribution to studies of island temporalities
Firouz Gaini
www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
The Geological Turn in Cinema
By Cici Peng
brooklynrail.org/2025/10/film...
Being and Becoming: A Timeline of Mathematics Complexity as Dialogue
Fred Amonya
"Mathematics is no longer the architecture of certainty but the conversation through which Being and Becoming continually create one another."
www.researchgate.net/profile/Fred...
Elemental computation: from nonhuman media
to more-than-digital information systems
Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski
technological mediation "as a variation on the theme of the Earth’s own capacity for self-organization and self-transformation".
Looking forward to discussing this at the Black Anthropocene reading group on Thursday. Yusoff crystallises the stakes of contemporary geography and geology and how many are attempting to do them otherwise by staying with a spatial ontology and thinking with other spatial forms.
