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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 14d

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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks for sharing Felicity. Whilst the investment in the medium and aesthetics reflects the contemporary stakes of working with the negative, the move to existential humanness reminds us of what has been dropped from critique. A very interesting read.

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 25d

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...

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Sep 12

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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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Sep 6

De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José
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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks Patrick. Much appreciated.

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 13

Racial melancholia as praxis: Refusal and collective life beyond the model minority formation

Vignesh Ramachandran

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 11

‘Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?’: inhabiting continuous improvement
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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 9

Archipelago as Form
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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 7

The boat and the abyss: Notes on a pedagogy of socioenvironmental listening

Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 7

Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish
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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 7

WORLDING: GLOSSARY II

Architecture
Philosophy and
Theory Group
BK | TU Delft

filelist.tudelft.nl/BK/Over_de_f...

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Aug 2

Really looking forward to getting into this!

Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 30

Confronting the Climate Crisis Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics

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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 28

Yes, zoom. If you email me can add you to the list. [email protected]

Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you want to join our island studies reading group send us an email.

We meet last Friday of the month 3pm London time.

Next meeting is Friday 26th Sept.

www.anthropoceneislands.online/page-2.html

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Monthly Reading Group

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 27

New Weird Fiction and the Anthropocene
Jeff VanderMeer and Ecological Awareness

Trang Dang

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New Weird Fiction and the Anthropocene

This book explores the development of ecological awareness in Jeff VanderMeer's New Weird novels, specifically on the Southern Reach and Borne series.

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 27

Aquapelagic necropolitics: governing migrants through more-than-human technologies on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands

Ángela Iranzo &Sira Dupain

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 26

My last piece - ‘Islands of Negation’ - in the ‘Environmental Humanities Glossary

#openaccess #abyssalgeography #islands #relationalturn

artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...

Islands of Negation – University of Copenhagen

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · Jul 21

Dismal outcome. Fewer students will be trusted with having their own ideas for a viable doctorate.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’

Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jul 6

“Because It Never Dies”: Klimoff Archipelagic Time in
from unincorporated territory [lukao]

Jessica Klimoff

#craigsantosperez

#archipelegictime

#storiation

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“Because It Never Dies”: Archipelagic Time in from unincorporated territory [lukao]

Abstract. Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [lukao], the fourth volume in his poetry series titled from unincorporated territory, tells overlapping narratives of Guåhan’s (Guam’s) col...

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · Jun 24

STRUCTURE OF FEELING, INFORMED NAIVETY AND
CONSTRUCTIVE PESSIMISM: METAMODERN ONTOLOGIES AND
PERFORMATIVITY OF HOPE IN JEANETTE WINTERSON’S THE
STONE GODS

Rizwan Jamil

al-aasar.com/index.php/Jo...

al-aasar.com

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 23

Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
#DGRGSymposium2025

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