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Emeritus Prof of Island Studies. ‘Anthropocene Islands’. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/bo… ‘World as Abyss’. www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/… All papers newcastle.academia.edu/JonathanPugh

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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a new paper just out with David Chandler 'Worlding without end? Geographies of the human, the posthuman, and the inhuman: An abyssal perspective', Dialogues in Human Geography Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027 We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought 500-word abstracts due 1 Nov 2026
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have a new paper out in the journal ‘Anthropocenes’ Worlding in the Anthropocene: Opacity and the Groundless Ground of Geography After the God’s-Eye View www.anthropocenes.net/article/id/2...
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Worlding in the Anthropocene: Opacity and the Groundless Ground of Geography After the God’s-Eye View
In the Anthropocene, the stakes of critique increasingly shift from mastery to opacity. The planet can no longer be approached as an object to be known, mapped, or repaired from above, but this collap...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Minima Relata: A reflection on negative geographic life Chris Lawer journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #openaccess
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Minima Relata: A reflection on negative geographic life - Chris Lawer, 2026
This paper makes a conceptual intervention beside affirmationist and negative geographies. Deploying a novel linguistic-functional schema, it parses the latter&...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Coming out soon ...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Cruel Fantasy of Non-relationality: Depressed Society in an Isolation Tank Katarzyna Szafranowska link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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The Cruel Fantasy of Non-relationality: Depressed Society in an Isolation Tank
In Byung-Chul Han's “society of tiredness” marked by exhausted and depressed subjects, it seems almost self-evident that there is a growing interest in R.E.S.T., or restricted environm...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Geography and ‘The New’ Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell, David Bissell, Beth Greenhough, Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme #openaccess rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all p...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
(Im)possibility of Redress: Mega-Infrastructuresand the Voided Politics of Contestation Gediminas Lesutis rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Making repair reparative: Towards expanded geographies of repair. Nate Millington et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Erotic Subtraction and Posthuman Death: subjectivity minus the minus David Roden May 29, 2026 davidroden3.substack.com/p/erotic-sub...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Really great read, charting the shift in early modernity toward autopoiesis. Worlding the world in the absence of ground.
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Geographies of nothingness: towards void-thinking Thomas Dekeyser & Catherine Oliver www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Geographies of nothingness: towards void-thinking
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2026)
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Elemental exposure: Ontolocational politics and the limits of negative ontology Elaine Stratford journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Hold/held/holding Rachael Squire journals.sagepub.com/home/DHG
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Archipelagic technonatures: The urbanisation of the ‘global biodiversity hotspot’ Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Archipelagic technonatures: The urbanisation of the ‘global biodiversity hotspot’ - Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, 2026
This paper develops the concept of archipelagic technonatures to analyse how urban infrastructures are reshaping the geographies of global conservation. We focu...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Looking forward to being at #MythicalArchipelagos2026 14-15th May!
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The vanishing forest that does not disappear: On finitude and worldings” Mario Blaser journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... Everything always already available to worlding
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind', by Dan Davies, is brilliant. In my humble opinion, probably the most important book to have been written in decades. Yet, it's not engaged by many academics.
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Minima Relata: A reflection on negative geographic life Chris Lawer journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This looks so interesting! The Metamodernist Abyss in China Miéville's Kraken and This Census-Taker Ewa Rychter. Forthcoming in Chalupský and Topolovská. Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures. Routledge. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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The Metamodernist Abyss in China Miéville's Kraken and This Census-Tak
This chapter examines Miéville’s Kraken (2010) and This Census-Taker (2016) against the backdrop of two recent reinvestments in depth-related modalities, which
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
1/3 CFP: Islandness in Contemporary Critique Online Conference | 1–2 Feb 2027 We invite 15-minute papers advancing one clear conceptual provocation about how islandness is generative for contemporary critical thought 500-word abstracts due 1 May 2026
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Between endings and beginnings: ‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography Ben Anderson journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge Ben Bowsher #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
'Anthropocene Islands' section of Island Studies Journal islandstudiesjournal.org/post/2137-an...
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Anthropocene islands | Published by Island Studies Journal
An article anthology on the figure of the island in the Anthropocene.
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Climate change and the limits of urban thought Savannah Cox journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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
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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Really looking forward to talking at the Conference - Reimagining Island Borders - held at Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University, 16 January 2026
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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.
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Really excited to be part of the teaching team for this new summer school #islands #islandness
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya Kenny Cupers www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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....
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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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/...
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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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....
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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Small islands and the large temporal questions: Eriksen’s contribution to studies of island temporalities Firouz Gaini www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
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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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Geological Turn in Cinema By Cici Peng brooklynrail.org/2025/10/film...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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".
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The Geological Jianni Tien “A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself” catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1/3 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.
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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 shimajournal.org/article/10.2...
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Jonathan Pugh @jonpughislands.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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 · 18/09/2025
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 · 12/09/2025
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/...
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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 · 06/09/2025
De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña ROSA BERBEL onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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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