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
October 27, 2025 at 10:40 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.
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.
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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.
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
Really looking forward to getting into this!
August 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Really looking forward to getting into this!
June 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles Free
Lee Edelman
differences (2025) 36 (1): 115–132.
doi.org/10.1215/1040...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Lee Edelman
differences (2025) 36 (1): 115–132.
doi.org/10.1215/1040...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
June 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles Free
Lee Edelman
differences (2025) 36 (1): 115–132.
doi.org/10.1215/1040...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Lee Edelman
differences (2025) 36 (1): 115–132.
doi.org/10.1215/1040...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Is ‘island study’ but a form of land study?
Stephen N. G. Davies and Lawrence W. C. Lai
doi.org/10.3828/tpr....
Stephen N. G. Davies and Lawrence W. C. Lai
doi.org/10.3828/tpr....
April 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Is ‘island study’ but a form of land study?
Stephen N. G. Davies and Lawrence W. C. Lai
doi.org/10.3828/tpr....
Stephen N. G. Davies and Lawrence W. C. Lai
doi.org/10.3828/tpr....
Looking forward to reading this!
February 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Looking forward to reading this!
CFP. An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asia”: Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
ccs.khu.ac.kr/board/notice...
August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
ccs.khu.ac.kr/board/notice...
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
CFP. An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asia”: Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
ccs.khu.ac.kr/board/notice...
August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
ccs.khu.ac.kr/board/notice...
Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness
Tom Drayton
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metamoder...
Tom Drayton
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metamoder...
January 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness
Tom Drayton
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metamoder...
Tom Drayton
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metamoder...
Some of my favourite reads from 2024.
January 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some of my favourite reads from 2024.
Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies
Katharina Fackler and Silvia Schultermandl
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Katharina Fackler and Silvia Schultermandl
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
January 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies
Katharina Fackler and Silvia Schultermandl
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Katharina Fackler and Silvia Schultermandl
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Thoroughly enjoying listening to ‘The Unaccountability Machine’ by Dan Davis.
December 27, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Thoroughly enjoying listening to ‘The Unaccountability Machine’ by Dan Davis.
1/2 ‘Material geographies, refusal, and time from the world as abyss’.
Thank you Neha Kohli (and Lucas Pohl, Andrew Baldwin, Barbara Gfoellner, and Thomas Jellis) for generously engaging ‘The World as Abyss’ in a Dialogues in Human Geography forum.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thank you Neha Kohli (and Lucas Pohl, Andrew Baldwin, Barbara Gfoellner, and Thomas Jellis) for generously engaging ‘The World as Abyss’ in a Dialogues in Human Geography forum.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 6, 2024 at 9:00 AM
1/2 ‘Material geographies, refusal, and time from the world as abyss’.
Thank you Neha Kohli (and Lucas Pohl, Andrew Baldwin, Barbara Gfoellner, and Thomas Jellis) for generously engaging ‘The World as Abyss’ in a Dialogues in Human Geography forum.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thank you Neha Kohli (and Lucas Pohl, Andrew Baldwin, Barbara Gfoellner, and Thomas Jellis) for generously engaging ‘The World as Abyss’ in a Dialogues in Human Geography forum.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Very late to reading this wonderful book by Mark Fisher, which feels even more prescient today.
November 26, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Very late to reading this wonderful book by Mark Fisher, which feels even more prescient today.