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  • Anthropocene Islands

    Entangled Worlds

    Jonathan Pugh, David Chandler

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    ‘Ambitious, sophisticated, timely and downright inspirational.’ – Philip Hayward, University of Technology Sydney, Okinawan Journal of Island Studies

    'A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University

    ‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa

    ‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg

    ‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster University

    The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit.

    Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.

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    Book Reviews (3):

      Review from 12 Apr 2023: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
      Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds

      Mónica Fernández Jiménez

      Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds is a landmark publication in the rise of interdisciplinarity. Half way between philosophy, geography, and the history of thought, authors Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler take the premise that Modern thought, i…

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. You can read the full review at Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

      Review from 01 Mar 2022: Okinawan Journal of Island Studies 3.1: 213–221
      Taking the Trouble

      Philip Hayward

      A consideration of Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. I’ll start with the headlines. Anthropocene Islands is an ambitious, sophisticated, timely, and downright inspirational book. It is by far the most stimulating volume to emerge from isla…

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. You can read the full review at Okinawan Journal of Island Studies 3.1: 213–221

      Review from 07 Apr 2022: LSE Review of Books
      Book Review: Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds by Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler

      Dr Sibo Chen

      In Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds — available open access— Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler explore the importance of thinking with islands in the Anthropocene, showing how island thinking and practices can provide solutions to our planetary…

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. You can read the full review at LSE Review of Books



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    How to cite this book
    Pugh J. & Chandler D. 2021. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book52
    Pugh, J. and Chandler, D., 2021. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book52
    Pugh, Jand D Chandler. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. University of Westminster Press, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book52
    Pugh, J., & Chandler, D. (2021). Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book52
    Pugh, Jonathan, and David Chandler. 2021. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book52




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    Published on June 9, 2021

    Language

    English

    Pages:

    261

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    EPUB 978-1-914386-02-2
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    https://doi.org/10.16997/book52