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 marine-terrestrial assemblages as philosophical, navigational, and knowledge-making interfaces. 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 waterfronts from the Andaman Islands, Maldives, and Indonesia to the Grand Banks and the Juan Fernandez Islands. It delves into pressing issues of human interrelations with aquatic environments, ocean volatility, ocean toxicity, flooding, inundation, mitigation, rising seas, and climate adaptation in interdisciplinary and comparative global terms. Within the conceptual framework of the aquapelago, the contributors to this volume explore aspects of integrated terrestrial and marine assemblages that enhance our understanding of the impact of global climate change and related rising sea levels on diverse planetary ecologies and the societies that depend on them. The volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of ethnography, social anthropology, climate action, development studies, public policy, and climate change.

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"""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 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 he 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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