Jonathan Pugh

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...

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...

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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...

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...

Elemental Computation Pervasive, high-powered digital information processing has been instrumental in turning the Earth and its constitutive systems into an object of thought and practice. But how does digitized informatic...

www.academia.edu/125323707/El...

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...

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Conference fee of around £50 (depending upon how I organise it).

Please email me if interested.

BUT ONLY if absolutely interested. I am trying to assess potential numbers.

Jonathan.pugh@ncl.ac.uk

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First, there is currently no focused conference examining deeper frameworks of reasoning.

Second, conferences have become too expensive, especially for island scholars scattered around the world.

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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...

Thanks for sharing Felicity. Whilst the investment in the medium and aesthetics reflects the contemporary stakes of working with the negative, the move to existential humanness reminds us of what has been dropped from critique. A very interesting read.

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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

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....

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

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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...

De/Sedimentation: The Geopoetics of José
Watanabe and Soledad Fariña

ROSA BERBEL

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Thanks Patrick. Much appreciated.

Dissonant seas: Black critical theory, river run thee, and the counterpoint to critical ocean geography This essay examines the material-theoretical analyses of the ocean subtending both critical ocean geography and Black critical theory. In providing this analysis, we raise concerns attending to the...

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

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#abyssalgeography

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Racial melancholia as praxis: Refusal and collective life beyond the model minority formation

Vignesh Ramachandran

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‘Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?’: inhabiting continuous improvement This paper investigates continuous improvement, a contemporary imperative of education reform, through my experiences as a network coach charged with its enactment in schools. Employing critical au...

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

Archipelago as Form | 6 | Education in a Post-climate World | Glenn Lo This chapter investigates the significance of the event in education in response to one of the most critical events of our time, climate change. The concept of

Archipelago as Form
Education in a Post-climate World

Glenn Loughran

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The boat and the abyss: Notes on a pedagogy of socioenvironmental listening

Maria Fantinato Géo de Siqueira

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Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish This article explores forms of haunting that shape lives and livelihoods in the Mediterranean, recognising the sea as a site of movement, labour, and death. The Mediterranean is now widely understo...

Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish
Eleanor Paynter

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WORLDING: GLOSSARY II

Architecture
Philosophy and
Theory Group
BK | TU Delft

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Really looking forward to getting into this!

Losing Our Heads: Finding Bodies in the Digital Anthropocene Through Contemporary Painting Practice This chapter examines the metaphorical and visual significance of decapitation in contemporary painting as a means to critique Cartesian dualism and the separation of mind and body. It argues that emo...

Confronting the Climate Crisis Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics

Edited by Daniel Binns and Rebecca Najdowski

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Yes, zoom. If you email me can add you to the list. Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk

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.

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