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
Between endings and beginnings: ‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography
Ben Anderson
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Ben Anderson
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February 18, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Between endings and beginnings: ‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography
Ben Anderson
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Ben Anderson
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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge
Ben Bowsher
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Ben Bowsher
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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026
This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge
Ben Bowsher
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Ben Bowsher
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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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February 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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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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
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
January 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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
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
January 16, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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
Elaine Stratford, Carol Farbotko, Phillipa Watson, Taukiei Kitara, Juno Berthelsen, Christopher Cozier, Ayano Ginoza, Julie Edel Hardenberg & Maria Hnraki
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#islands
Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists
Geographers are increasingly interested in islands as sites of critical and creative transformation, their works often characterized by deep commitments to collaborative research and decolonizing a...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
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#islands
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
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
The title of my talk is:- Three ways of thinking with islandness in contemporary critique
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
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
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis
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November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis
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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.
Just in the scoping stage, so message me if this interests you.
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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.
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
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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
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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.
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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
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Human geography: Not ending but worlding the modern subject in new ways
Dialogues in Human Geography
Volume 15, Issue 3
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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
www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
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."
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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."
www.researchgate.net/profile/Fred...
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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