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-...

New Online 1st Commentary “Interlocutors for decolonial logics” by Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre doi.org/10.1177/2043...

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

Call for papers for RGS-IBG 2025: The Subject of Geography Who are we and how does it matter for contemporary debates about geographical knowledge? We welcome papers that places the geographer in focus from any perspective 250 words abstracts due Feb 21 [email protected]

Together with Fiona Schrading; I will host the renewed standing section "IR in the Anthropocene" at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Bologna, 25-29 Aug. This year we will focus on "Temporalities in the Anthropocene". We are looking forward to your contributions! Deadline 20 March.

1/4 Next few meetings of Island Studies Reading Group. Email me if you want to join [email protected]

Looking forward to reading this!

Look what just arrived!! 🥳 My book, "#Arctic State Identity", is actually real - and I even got it a week before it's officially out on 28th Jan (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526153906/), thanks to the amazing editorial team at @manchesterup.bsky.social 🙌

Organising sessions with @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social on negative affects of planetary crises at RGS-IBG 2025 and would love to hear from you if interested in participating! @rgsibg.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social

CFP. An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asia”: Literature, Politics, Culture August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US ccs.khu.ac.kr/board/notice...

Dark Humour and Invasive Species Storytelling in the Age of Extinction Emily Yu Zong & Daisy Bisenieks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #opacityasgenerative

Collaborative work with philosopher Simon Vanderstraeten just out in @theoryculturesociety.org: "Biology's dark matter: From galaxies to microbes." We examine what is at stake in the conceptual translation of 'dark matter' from the physical to the life sciences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness Tom Drayton www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metamoder...

Why are Gen Z taking 'jobs for life'? They're prioritsing stability over the capitalist grind which is quite refreshing actually... My first EVER byline in the Grauniad! Be kind please

Two Assistant Prof positions in Geography at Durham, deadline for applications next week!

Critical Islands, Archipelagoes, and Oceans (CIAO) Specialty Group petition for signatures docs.google.com/forms/d/1T0a...

Some of my favourite reads from 2024.

Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies Katharina Fackler and Silvia Schultermandl www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Obviously it's grim and I hate how the technology has been used, but it's still funny to read stories about social media/media companies attempting to integrate ChatGPT-style AI into their stuff. It's like if Kellogg's was trying to find a way to get "a fistful of ground glass" into every product.