Jonathan Pugh
@jonpughislands.bsky.social
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
‘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
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya
Kenny Cupers
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Kenny Cupers
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya
Kenny Cupers
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Kenny Cupers
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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.
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Jay-Paul Hinds
Plenary address given at the 2024 Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Study Conference.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Shepherd’s Black Sheep: African American Pastoral Theology in the Age of Afropessimism
In this plenary address given at the 2024 Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Study Conference, I argue that African American pastoral theology, and the broader field of pastoral theology, cannot i...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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....
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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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...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Human geography: Not ending but worlding the modern subject in new ways - Jonathan Pugh, 2025
This commentary engages Bodden's (2025) ‘Working through our differences’ to draw out how contemporary frameworks of reasoning in human geography extend th...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excellent new paper!
On the drag of the ship(ped)
Shaida Akbarian, P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods
Social and Cultural Geography
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On the drag of the ship(ped)
Shaida Akbarian, P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods
Social and Cultural Geography
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On the drag of the ship(ped)
The black studies corpus is replete with references, images, and allegories of varying forms of aquatic voids and natatorial fugitivity. Ranging from Brathwaite’s ‘tidalectics’ to Bennett’s ‘hydrop...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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....
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
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Firouz Gaini
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OAR@UM: Small islands and the large temporal questions : Eriksen’s contribution to studies of island temporalities
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October 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Small islands and the large temporal questions: Eriksen’s contribution to studies of island temporalities
Firouz Gaini
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Firouz Gaini
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October 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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."
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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...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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."
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Fred Amonya
"Mathematics is no longer the architecture of certainty but the conversation through which Being and Becoming continually create one another."
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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".
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".
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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".
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.
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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.
The Geological
Jianni Tien
“A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself”
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Jianni Tien
“A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself”
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October 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Geological
Jianni Tien
“A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself”
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Jianni Tien
“A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself”
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I’m exploring setting up an online annual conference covering the latest conceptual developments in thinking with #islands and #islandness. Would do this for two main reasons.
I’m exploring setting up an online annual conference covering the latest conceptual developments in thinking with #islands and #islandness. Would do this for two main reasons.
October 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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I’m exploring setting up an online annual conference covering the latest conceptual developments in thinking with #islands and #islandness. Would do this for two main reasons.
I’m exploring setting up an online annual conference covering the latest conceptual developments in thinking with #islands and #islandness. Would do this for two main reasons.
A Rocky Paradox: International law, Island Studies and the socio-cultural significance of pinnacles and sea stacks (with reference to the Faroe Islands, Channel Islands and Balls Pyramid)
Christian Fleury, Firouz Gaini and Philip Hayward
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Christian Fleury, Firouz Gaini and Philip Hayward
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September 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A Rocky Paradox: International law, Island Studies and the socio-cultural significance of pinnacles and sea stacks (with reference to the Faroe Islands, Channel Islands and Balls Pyramid)
Christian Fleury, Firouz Gaini and Philip Hayward
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Christian Fleury, Firouz Gaini and Philip Hayward
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ISLAND STUDIES READING GROUP, 26TH SEPT, 3pm London Time. We are reading:
Colebrook, C. (2023). Who Would You Kill to Save the world? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
PLUS
Colebrook, C. (2023). No man is an island, Dialogues in Human Geography, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Colebrook, C. (2023). Who Would You Kill to Save the world? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
PLUS
Colebrook, C. (2023). No man is an island, Dialogues in Human Geography, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
ISLAND STUDIES READING GROUP, 26TH SEPT, 3pm London Time. We are reading:
Colebrook, C. (2023). Who Would You Kill to Save the world? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
PLUS
Colebrook, C. (2023). No man is an island, Dialogues in Human Geography, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Colebrook, C. (2023). Who Would You Kill to Save the world? Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
PLUS
Colebrook, C. (2023). No man is an island, Dialogues in Human Geography, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Really enjoyed kicking off, along with Godfrey Baldacchino, this year’s NZSA seminar series.
Talked on my new project exploring contemporary modes of relational and archipelagic thinking in Western critique. Tracking the shifting stakes of engaging #islands and #islandness
Talked on my new project exploring contemporary modes of relational and archipelagic thinking in Western critique. Tracking the shifting stakes of engaging #islands and #islandness
September 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Really enjoyed kicking off, along with Godfrey Baldacchino, this year’s NZSA seminar series.
Talked on my new project exploring contemporary modes of relational and archipelagic thinking in Western critique. Tracking the shifting stakes of engaging #islands and #islandness
Talked on my new project exploring contemporary modes of relational and archipelagic thinking in Western critique. Tracking the shifting stakes of engaging #islands and #islandness
Now published
Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss
David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
v50, Issue 3 e12724
#openaccess
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Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss
David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
v50, Issue 3 e12724
#openaccess
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper seeks to outline an alternative mode of critique, one that places both relational and negative approaches under the scrutiny of an ‘abyssal’ approach. Here, after Fanon, the world violentl....
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September 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Now published
Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss
David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
v50, Issue 3 e12724
#openaccess
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss
David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
v50, Issue 3 e12724
#openaccess
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José
Watanabe and Soledad Fariña
ROSA BERBEL
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Watanabe and Soledad Fariña
ROSA BERBEL
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De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña
This paper explores de/sedimentation as both a textual and geological concept through the works of José Watanabe (La piedra alada) and Soledad Fariña (PAC PAC PEC PEC) to examine how literary and mat...
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September 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José
Watanabe and Soledad Fariña
ROSA BERBEL
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Watanabe and Soledad Fariña
ROSA BERBEL
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Dissonant seas: Black critical theory, river run thee, and the counterpoint to critical ocean geography
Patrick Michael Teed and Christopher McAteer
Social and Cultural Geography
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#abyssalgeography
Patrick Michael Teed and Christopher McAteer
Social and Cultural Geography
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#abyssalgeography
Dissonant seas: Black critical theory, river run thee, and the counterpoint to critical ocean geography
This essay examines the material-theoretical analyses of the ocean subtending both critical ocean geography and Black critical theory. In providing this analysis, we raise concerns attending to the...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Dissonant seas: Black critical theory, river run thee, and the counterpoint to critical ocean geography
Patrick Michael Teed and Christopher McAteer
Social and Cultural Geography
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#abyssalgeography
Patrick Michael Teed and Christopher McAteer
Social and Cultural Geography
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#abyssalgeography
Racial melancholia as praxis: Refusal and collective life beyond the model minority formation
Vignesh Ramachandran
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Vignesh Ramachandran
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August 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Racial melancholia as praxis: Refusal and collective life beyond the model minority formation
Vignesh Ramachandran
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Vignesh Ramachandran
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‘Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?’: inhabiting continuous improvement
Eric Shieh
Eric Shieh
‘Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?’: inhabiting continuous improvement
This paper investigates continuous improvement, a contemporary imperative of education reform, through my experiences as a network coach charged with its enactment in schools. Employing critical au...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?’: inhabiting continuous improvement
Eric Shieh
Eric Shieh
Archipelago as Form
Education in a Post-climate World
Glenn Loughran
Education in a Post-climate World
Glenn Loughran
Archipelago as Form | 6 | Education in a Post-climate World | Glenn Lo
This chapter investigates the significance of the event in education in response to one of the most critical events of our time, climate change. The concept of
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August 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Archipelago as Form
Education in a Post-climate World
Glenn Loughran
Education in a Post-climate World
Glenn Loughran
The boat and the abyss: Notes on a pedagogy of socioenvironmental listening
Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira
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Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira
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August 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The boat and the abyss: Notes on a pedagogy of socioenvironmental listening
Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira
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Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira
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Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish
Eleanor Paynter
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Eleanor Paynter
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Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish
This article explores forms of haunting that shape lives and livelihoods in the Mediterranean, recognising the sea as a site of movement, labour, and death. The Mediterranean is now widely understo...
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August 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish
Eleanor Paynter
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Eleanor Paynter
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WORLDING: GLOSSARY II
Architecture
Philosophy and
Theory Group
BK | TU Delft
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Architecture
Philosophy and
Theory Group
BK | TU Delft
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August 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
WORLDING: GLOSSARY II
Architecture
Philosophy and
Theory Group
BK | TU Delft
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Architecture
Philosophy and
Theory Group
BK | TU Delft
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Really looking forward to getting into this!
August 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Really looking forward to getting into this!
Confronting the Climate Crisis Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics
Edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski
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Edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski
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Losing Our Heads: Finding Bodies in the Digital Anthropocene Through Contemporary Painting Practice
This chapter examines the metaphorical and visual significance of decapitation in contemporary painting as a means to critique Cartesian dualism and the separation of mind and body. It argues that emo...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Confronting the Climate Crisis Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics
Edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski
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Edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski
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