Anthropocene Islands
Entangled Worlds
The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene - an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity's capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island's liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhi…
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Weitere Autoren: Pugh, Jonathan
- ISBN: 978-1-914386-00-8
- EAN: 9781914386008
- Produktnummer: 36699094
- Verlag: University of Westminster Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 382 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 382
Über den Autor
Jonathan Pugh is Reader in Island Studies, University of Newcastle, UK. He is the author of over 70 publications developing relational thinking with islands and, more recently, the figure of the island in the Anthropocene. He leads the 'Anthropocene Islands' initiative: https://www.anthropoceneislands.online.
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