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

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

Really looking forward to talking at the Conference - Reimagining Island Borders - held at Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University, 16 January 2026

Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

Really excited to be part of the teaching team for this new summer school #islands #islandness

Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya Kenny Cupers www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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....

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/...

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....

Small islands and the large temporal questions: Eriksen’s contribution to studies of island temporalities Firouz Gaini www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...

The Geological Turn in Cinema By Cici Peng brooklynrail.org/2025/10/film...

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...

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".

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.

The Geological Jianni Tien “A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself” catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

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.

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...

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...

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

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/...

De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José Watanabe and Soledad Fariña ROSA BERBEL onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #abyssalgeography

Racial melancholia as praxis: Refusal and collective life beyond the model minority formation Vignesh Ramachandran journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‘Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?’: inhabiting continuous improvement Eric Shieh

Archipelago as Form Education in a Post-climate World Glenn Loughran

The boat and the abyss: Notes on a pedagogy of socioenvironmental listening Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish Eleanor Paynter www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

WORLDING: GLOSSARY II Architecture Philosophy and Theory Group BK | TU Delft filelist.tudelft.nl/BK/Over_de_f...

Really looking forward to getting into this!

Confronting the Climate Crisis Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics Edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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

New Weird Fiction and the Anthropocene Jeff VanderMeer and Ecological Awareness Trang Dang link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Aquapelagic necropolitics: governing migrants through more-than-human technologies on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands Ángela Iranzo &Sira Dupain www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My last piece - ‘Islands of Negation’ - in the ‘Environmental Humanities Glossary #openaccess #abyssalgeography #islands #relationalturn artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...

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

“Because It Never Dies”: Klimoff Archipelagic Time in from unincorporated territory [lukao] Jessica Klimoff #craigsantosperez #archipelegictime #storiation read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...

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...

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

THE EVIL DEMON OF IMAGES Jean Baudrillard monoskop.org/images/4/47/...

Unknowing Through Time: The queer and weird imaginal space from Middle Ages to speculative futures Rebecca Yallop aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/c...

The algorithmic societies team map the emerging political logics of generative AI across: generativity, latency, broken sequences, & zero shot www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dark: Reflections on time’s eternal recurrence, or abyssal thinking Thomas Keating #AbyssalGeography geografier.se/2024/11/09/d...

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/...

Mediterranean geographies from the abyss. Traces of the wake: boats and shipwrecks Giulia de Spuches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is ‘island study’ but a form of land study? Stephen N. G. Davies and Lawrence W. C. Lai doi.org/10.3828/tpr....

Thinking from multiple oceans: historical and elemental lineages and futures of ocean geography(s) Philip Steinberg Social and Cultural Geography #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination - @edinburghup.bsky.social, July 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-adorno-...