Overview

Aquapelagos is a cross disciplinary volume that is geared to a general undergraduate and non-specialist readership while also being rigorous and theoretically exciting for doctoral and advanced researchers of climate and ocean studies. It foregrounds the ocean as a philosophical, navigational and knowledge making interface. Drawing on ethnographic, geographic, architectural, sociological and scientific methodogies, Aquapelagos sheds light on varied approaches, dialogues and responses to the catastrophic and impending futures unfolding across the waterfronts from the Andaman Islands, Maldives and Indonesia, to the Grand Banks and the Juan Fernandez Islands. It delves into pressing issues of ocean volatility, ocean toxicity, flooding, inundation, mitigation, rising seas, climate adaptation, in interdisciplinary and comparative global terms. The contributors of this volume explore notions such as the archipelago, lagoon thinking, coastal waterfronts and the littoral imagination as concepts that can open up new ways of understanding the ecologies emerging out of the increasingly wet, accelerated precipitation and global sinking of coastlands and islands across the world.

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Author:   Philip R Hayward ,  May Joseph (Pratt Institute, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
ISBN:  

9781032723440

ISBN 10:   1032723440
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   26 December 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The aquapelago as an integrated assemblage 1. The aquapelagic context of the Minquiers and Écréhous reefs 2. Colonial legacies and restoration futures: Examining the risks of dispossession from coral reef restoration in the Indonesian aquapelago 3. Shifting to an aquapelagic orientation: Ritchie’s Archipelago (Andaman Islands) 4. The Juan Fernandez Islands in transition 5. “Extraordinarily Hazardous”: The precarious aquapelagic assemblage of the Grand Banks 6. Reading the Maldives aquapelago through monsoonal airs 7. New York: An Estuarine Aquapelago 8. Colonial extraction and Black liberation in the New York Oyster commons Afterword

Reviews

"""The aquapelago has become a seminal framework for shifting debate in island scholarship beyond the land locked island towards engagements with watery surroundings. Aquapelagos: Integrated Terrestrial and Marine Assemblages makes a major contribution to aquapelago thinking. It is not only indispensable for island studies but significant for the shifting stakes of broader debate in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For, by foregrounding the power of thinking with terrestrial-aquatic continua, of emergent patchworks of dynamic relational (un)becoming, the aquapelago is a powerful engagement with today’s crisis of faith in modern frameworks of reasoning, a unique challenge to the human/nature divide."" - Jonathan Pugh. Professor of Island Studies, Newcastle University (UK). Co-author (with David Chandler) (2021) Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds, University of Westminster Press. ""What is an “aquapelago”? The answer leads readers to question mainstream understandings of socio-spatial existence. The opening discussion of Hau’ofa’s Pacific “sea of islands” framework reveals “the island” as a limited construct stemming from a terrestrial, Euro-centric tradition. The chapters then present examples by diverse authors who attend to the socio-political-ecological-oceanographic dynamics of space and place in historical context, combined with the critical stakes of global climate change. This is essential reading for scholars emerging from generations of thwarted justice and evaded settler colonial responsibility in search of reparative onto-epistemologies to enable the sovereignty and survival of the world’s most vital aquapelagic assemblages."" - Amelia Moore, Associate Professo, University of Rhode Island, USA ""A dozen years after the concept was introduced to Island Studies, the long-awaited international anthology dedicated to empirical and critical theoretical discussions on the aquapelago is here. It assembles a selection of essays demonstrating the formidable scope and strength of the aquapelago as lens for inquiry into the connection between land and sea and the position of humans and non-humans in ‘terrestrial and marine assemblages’. This book unlocks island scholarship’s potential as analytic optic in progressive projects (re)thinking and (re)imagining environmental, social and existential crises across the globe. Aquapelagos is a welcome collection that anyone interested in shorelines – and in the consequences that changes in the ways the water and the land influence each other – have on our lives."" - Firouz Gaini, Professor, University of the Faroe Islands"

Author Information

Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, editor of the journal Shima and a strategic advisor for the River Cities Network. His research addresses oceanic, island, coastal and riverine environments with particular regard to issues of cultural heritage, tourism and representation. He has published articles in journals such as Anthropocenes, Island Studies Journal, Lagoonscapes, Small States and Territories and Transformations and has written and edited 14 books. May Joseph is Professor of Social Science at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA and author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (2022); ghosts of Lumumba (2020), Sealog: Indian Ocean to New York (2019); Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination (2013); and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999). Joseph is co-editor (with Sudipta Sen) of Terra Aqua: The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia (2022); and co-Editor of Performing Hybridity (1999). She co-edits three book series from Routledge, Critical Climate Studies, Ocean and Island Studies, and Kaleidoscope: Ethnography, Art, Architecture and Archaeology.

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