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Relationality and Island Studies in the Anthropocene

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Abstract

The island has become arguably one of the most emblematic figures of the Anthropocene. It is regularly invoked as exemplary of the changing stakes of our planet. This generates a crucially important role for island studies’ scholars; to explore, question, but now perhaps also trouble, some fundamental debates about islands in the Anthropocene. This paper picks up a particularly recurrent theme for island scholarship in recent decades – relationality and islands – and reorientates this within the stakes of the Anthropocene; discussing some implications for island studies, island ontology and resilience ethics.


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Author(s): Pugh J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Island Studies Journal

Year: 2018

Volume: 13

Issue: 2

Pages: 93-110

Print publication date: 14/02/2018

Online publication date: 14/02/2018

Acceptance date: 14/02/2018

Date deposited: 19/02/2018

ISSN (electronic): 1715-2593

Publisher: University of Prince Edward Island

URL: https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.48

DOI: 10.24043/isj.48

Notes: This paper re-orientates the increasingly prominent relational and archipelagic turns in island studies within the new stakes of the Anthropocene. It offers a new approach to island studies foregrounding islands within vast multidimensional relations, a new island ontology and critique of dominant island ethics in the Anthropocene associated with resilience and the figure of the indigenous islander.


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