Jonathan Pugh
@jonnypugh1974
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Emeritus Professor of Island Studies. Anthropocene Islands. The World as Abyss #Islands #archipelagos #abyssalgeography
Newcastle University
Joined September 2015
It’s here! My new book with @DavidCh27992090. Around £12 to buy in paperback or free to download the whole book https://t.co/WUnhB98GHV
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Rethinking Relational Geopolitics in Contested Islands and Seas: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Takashi Yamazakia and Sasha Davis https://t.co/VPNP6JnFp6
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The ‘relational turn’ signifies a shift in the focus of the social sciences and humanities towards relationships rather than isolated entities. One of the key recent developments in this perspectiv...
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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.
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Really excited to be part of the teaching team for this new summer school #islands #islandness
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Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya Kenny Cupers https://t.co/SivPBhImKG
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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. https://t.co/wgffateZA0
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In this plenary address given at the 2024 Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Study Conference, I argue that African American pastoral theology, and the broader field of pastoral theology, cannot i...
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Islandization is the most significant, least understood 21st century urban imaginary.
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Really great night watching #stewartLee Highly recommend if you can get tickets!
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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 https://t.co/pGafu1XYxo
https://t.co/8RRyR93WQt
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This commentary engages Bodden's (2025) ‘Working through our differences’ to draw out how contemporary frameworks of reasoning in human geography extend th...
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Excellent new paper! On the drag of the ship(ped) Shaida Akbarian, P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods @pkhalilsaucier Social and Cultural Geography https://t.co/mkiuImCSe3
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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...
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This withering disdain for anyone seeing miracles in the ordinary world exemplifies the anti-transcendent "dwelling in the ruins" mindset dominating culture --and ironically echoes the Leftist moral code of Blade Runner 2049 itself, which I wrote abt here: https://t.co/kquHJechoD
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Red skies hang over California, floodwaters lap at America’s Gulf Coast, and just about everything else seems to be going down the tubes. As we tip into the Anthropocene’s free fall, who hasn’t...
"a movie changes your life" ---really?
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Very excited to welcome you all at @LSELaw on Tuesday 11 November 6-7.30pm for a discussion with the always inspiring *Wendy Brown* on 'The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives': https://t.co/qpVB6a34qU Come along! No registration needed. MAR 2.04
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Small islands and the large temporal questions: Eriksen’s contribution to studies of island temporalities Firouz Gaini https://t.co/Hni1wCyb6t
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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." https://t.co/lZAtFuJSX7
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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".
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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.
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The Geological Jianni Tien “A geologic population is governed by… the earth itself” https://t.co/FU096zfgPm
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3/3 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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2/3 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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