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Author:   Michelle Stephens ,  Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.776kg
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9781538149911

ISBN 10:   1538149915
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   26 April 2024
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Acknowledgments Archipelagic Poetics: Foreword, Craig Santos Perez 1. Introduction: “Isolated Above, but Connected Below”: Toward New, Global, Archipelagic Linkages, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Michelle Stephens PART I: SPACE, SCALE, LANGUAGE, AND TIME: FOUNDATIONAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF ARCHIPELAGIC THOUGHT 2. Disciplinary Formations, Creative Tensions, and Certain Logics in Archipelagic Studies, Elaine Stratford 3. The Affirmational Turn to Ontology in the Anthropocene: A Critique, Jonathan Pugh 4. What Is an Archipelago? On Bandung Praxis, Lingua Franca, and Archipelagic Interlapping, Brian Russell Roberts 5. The Chronotopes of Archipelagic Thinking: Glissant and the Narrative of Philosophy, Lanny Thompson PART II: BEYOND THE SEA AS METAPHOR: COMPARATIVE MARITIME EPISTEMOLOGIES 6. An Early Medieval “Sea of Islands”: Area Studies, Medieval Studies, and Traditions of Wayfinding, Jeremy DeAngelo 7. Archipelago of the Maghreb: Mapping Mediterranean Movement from Transnational Migration to Transregional Mobility, Sarah DeMott 8. Archipelagic Deformations and Decontinental Disability Studies, Mary Eyring 9. Digital Currents, Oceanic Drift, and the Evolving Ecology of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, Lisa Swanstrom PART III: ARCHIPELAGIC ENVIRONMENTS: EVOLVING POLITICAL ECOLOGIES 10. Literary Archipelagraphies: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago, Pippa Marland 11. Conservation Archipelago: Protecting Long-Distance Migratory Shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway, Jenny R. Isaacs 12. The Debris of Caribbean History: Literature, Art, and Archipelagic Plastic, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert PART IV: RELATIONAL ARCHIPELAGICS: REDEFINING IMPERIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES 13. Archipelagoes as the Fractal Fringe of Coloniality: Demilitarizing Caribbean and Pacific Islands, Mimi Sheller 14. Sardinia “Lost between Europe and Africa”: Archaeology and Archipelagic Theory, Thomas P. Leppard, Elizabeth A. Murphy, and Andrea Roppa 15. Sovereignty between Empire and Nation-State: The Archipelago as Postcolonial Format, Christopher J. Lee 16. Archipelagic Feeling: Counter-mapping Indigeneity and Diaspora in the Trans-Pacific, Haruki Eda PART V: INTER-ISLAND DYNAMISMS: SMALL ISLANDS/BIG WORLDS 17. “Together, but Not Together, Together”: The Politics of Identity in Island Archipelagoes, Godfrey Baldacchino 18. Small Islands, Large Radio: Archipelagic Listening in the Caribbean, Jessica Swanston Baker 19. The Insular and the Transnational Archipelagoes: The Indo-Caribbean in Samuel Selvon and Harold Sonny Ladoo, Anjali Nerlekar 20. On Archipelagic Beings, Gitanjali Pyndiah Index About the Contributors

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Through literary studies, anthropology and archaeology, poetry, philosophy, cartography, eco-environmental critique, ethnomusicology—and more—the contributors to Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking provide dazzling insights into fragments of time, space, genealogy, and political culture that shape global “interlapping” journeys. Across the Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean, they capture elusive experiences that redefine histories and narratives lived through continents, oceans, and islands. -- Matt Matsuda, professor of history, Rutgers University Archipelagic modes of thought offer just what we need to grasp the ambiguities of our contemporary world, and Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking offers an indispensable guide. Attentive to the development of new ways of theorizing, always geographically specific, never forgetful of the legacies of colonialism, this is an urgent book but also one that makes time to remember poetry. -- Peter Hulme, emeritus professor of literature, University of Essex Archipelagic thinking centers islands’ geographies and their populations’ histories as an onto-ecological ferment producing mobilities between and among seas, lands, continents, and peoples. This volume’s prose and poetry shift the meaning of islands, moving from insular islands to spaces that are produced vis-à-vis the intertwinements of place and the inseparable autonomies of sociocultural practices. This bold and dynamic thinking––archipelagic thinking––is a provocative text that champions a methodology. It demands that we think of totality through the elements that compose place––tracing the connections, flows, and mobilities that constitute place. -- Michaeline Crichlow, professor of Caribbean and global studies, Duke University Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Michelle Stephens have gathered in Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking a stellar line-up of scholars and artists who are on the cutting edge of redefining the epistemologies that have traditionally informed area studies. This volume models the interdisciplinarity it calls for, probing the political, ecological, geographical, and aesthetic dimensions of culture beyond the confines of the nation state. Its achievements are many, not the least of which is its capacity to open new ways of imagining the interplay of locality and globality without the tired anxieties of influence that have often plagued previous efforts. -- George Handley, professor of interdisciplinary humanities, Brigham Young University Like a multilayered archipelago, poetry and scholarship resonate and come together in beautiful new forms in this extraordinary collection. Subaqueous and subterranean connections and entanglements forge new relational paths and unfold in revelatory ways. Inspiring world-making visions, the collection draws attention to the intellectual seismic shifts reimagining how we think through the human, the non-human, and our geographic worlds. -- Allan Isaac, associate professor of American studies and English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking reveals what forms of intellectual, political, material, and ecological relation become possible when archipelagoes are imagined not as peripheral or marginal geo-formations, but as models for new modes of affiliation and transformation. The essays and poems in this volume constellate fresh and often surprising perspectives on a contemporary world in which the scales of the global and the local are themselves in shifting relation. -- Hester Blum, associate professor of English, Penn State University This groundbreaking collection of essays, by seeking to establish a more flexible definition of the archipelago, draws together its historical, cultural, and diasporic dimensions to seek out new epistemologies, new modes of inquiry and new methodologies that will reframe a range of interdisciplinary approaches by viewing them through an archipelagic prism. By conceiving the analytical and re-presentational potential of islands, oceans and bodies of water as a framework that can theorize multiplicity and difference, and expanding it to a global framework, the resulting disciplinary formations will enable new perspectives and conclusions across a host of fields, from literature and poetics to environmental studies to the study of empire and postcoloniality. -- H. Adlai Murdoch, Professor of Francophone Studies, Tufts University

"Archipelagic modes of thought offer just what we need to grasp the ambiguities of our contemporary world, and Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking offers an indispensable guide. Attentive to the development of new ways of theorizing, always geographically specific, never forgetful of the legacies of colonialism, this is an urgent book but also one that makes time to remember poetry.--Peter Hulme, emeritus professor of literature, University of Essex Archipelagic thinking centers islands' geographies and their populations' histories as an onto-ecological ferment producing mobilities between and among seas, lands, continents, and peoples. This volume's prose and poetry shift the meaning of islands, moving from insular islands to spaces that are produced vis-à-vis the intertwinements of place and the inseparable autonomies of sociocultural practices. This bold and dynamic thinking--archipelagic thinking--is a provocative text that champions a methodology. It demands that we think of totality through the elements that compose place--tracing the connections, flows, and mobilities that constitute place.--Michaeline Crichlow, professor of Caribbean and global studies, Duke University Through literary studies, anthropology and archaeology, poetry, philosophy, cartography, eco-environmental critique, ethnomusicology--and more--the contributors to Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking provide dazzling insights into fragments of time, space, genealogy, and political culture that shape global ""interlapping"" journeys. Across the Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean, they capture elusive experiences that redefine histories and narratives lived through continents, oceans, and islands.--Matt Matsuda, professor of history, Rutgers University Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Michelle Stephens have gathered in Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking a stellar line-up of scholars and artists who are on the cutting edge of redefining the epistemologies that have traditionally informed area studies. This volume models the interdisciplinarity it calls for, probing the political, ecological, geographical, and aesthetic dimensions of culture beyond the confines of the nation state. Its achievements are many, not the least of which is its capacity to open new ways of imagining the interplay of locality and globality without the tired anxieties of influence that have often plagued previous efforts.--George Handley, professor of interdisciplinary humanities, Brigham Young University Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking reveals what forms of intellectual, political, material, and ecological relation become possible when archipelagoes are imagined not as peripheral or marginal geo-formations, but as models for new modes of affiliation and transformation. The essays and poems in this volume constellate fresh and often surprising perspectives on a contemporary world in which the scales of the global and the local are themselves in shifting relation. --Hester Blum, associate professor of English, Penn State University Like a multilayered archipelago, poetry and scholarship resonate and come together in beautiful new forms in this extraordinary collection. Subaqueous and subterranean connections and entanglements forge new relational paths and unfold in revelatory ways. Inspiring world-making visions, the collection draws attention to the intellectual seismic shifts reimagining how we think through the human, the non-human, and our geographic worlds. --Allan Isaac, associate professor of American studies and English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey This groundbreaking collection of essays, by seeking to establish a more flexible definition of the archipelago, draws together its historical, cultural, and diasporic dimensions to seek out new epistemologies, new modes of inquiry and new methodologies that will reframe a range of interdisciplinary approaches by viewing them through an archipelagic prism. By conceiving the analytical and re-presentational potential of islands, oceans and bodies of water as a framework that can theorize multiplicity and difference, and expanding it to a global framework, the resulting disciplinary formations will enable new perspectives and conclusions across a host of fields, from literature and poetics to environmental studies to the study of empire and postcoloniality. --H. Adlai Murdoch, Professor of Francophone Studies, Tufts University"

"Archipelagic modes of thought offer just what we need to grasp the ambiguities of our contemporary world, and Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking offers an indispensable guide. Attentive to the development of new ways of theorizing, always geographically specific, never forgetful of the legacies of colonialism, this is an urgent book but also one that makes time to remember poetry.--Peter Hulme, emeritus professor of literature, University of Essex Archipelagic thinking centers islands' geographies and their populations' histories as an onto-ecological ferment producing mobilities between and among seas, lands, continents, and peoples. This volume's prose and poetry shift the meaning of islands, moving from insular islands to spaces that are produced vis-�-vis the intertwinements of place and the inseparable autonomies of sociocultural practices. This bold and dynamic thinking--archipelagic thinking--is a provocative text that champions a methodology. It demands that we think of totality through the elements that compose place--tracing the connections, flows, and mobilities that constitute place.--Michaeline Crichlow, professor of Caribbean and global studies, Duke University Through literary studies, anthropology and archaeology, poetry, philosophy, cartography, eco-environmental critique, ethnomusicology--and more--the contributors to Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking provide dazzling insights into fragments of time, space, genealogy, and political culture that shape global ""interlapping"" journeys. Across the Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean, they capture elusive experiences that redefine histories and narratives lived through continents, oceans, and islands.--Matt Matsuda, professor of history, Rutgers University Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Michelle Stephens have gathered in Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking a stellar line-up of scholars and artists who are on the cutting edge of redefining the epistemologies that have traditionally informed area studies. This volume models the interdisciplinarity it calls for, probing the political, ecological, geographical, and aesthetic dimensions of culture beyond the confines of the nation state. Its achievements are many, not the least of which is its capacity to open new ways of imagining the interplay of locality and globality without the tired anxieties of influence that have often plagued previous efforts.--George Handley, professor of interdisciplinary humanities, Brigham Young University Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking reveals what forms of intellectual, political, material, and ecological relation become possible when archipelagoes are imagined not as peripheral or marginal geo-formations, but as models for new modes of affiliation and transformation. The essays and poems in this volume constellate fresh and often surprising perspectives on a contemporary world in which the scales of the global and the local are themselves in shifting relation. --Hester Blum, associate professor of English, Penn State University Like a multilayered archipelago, poetry and scholarship resonate and come together in beautiful new forms in this extraordinary collection. Subaqueous and subterranean connections and entanglements forge new relational paths and unfold in revelatory ways. Inspiring world-making visions, the collection draws attention to the intellectual seismic shifts reimagining how we think through the human, the non-human, and our geographic worlds. --Allan Isaac, associate professor of American studies and English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey This groundbreaking collection of essays, by seeking to establish a more flexible definition of the archipelago, draws together its historical, cultural, and diasporic dimensions to seek out new epistemologies, new modes of inquiry and new methodologies that will reframe a range of interdisciplinary approaches by viewing them through an archipelagic prism. By conceiving the analytical and re-presentational potential of islands, oceans and bodies of water as a framework that can theorize multiplicity and difference, and expanding it to a global framework, the resulting disciplinary formations will enable new perspectives and conclusions across a host of fields, from literature and poetics to environmental studies to the study of empire and postcoloniality. --H. Adlai Murdoch, Professor of Francophone Studies, Tufts University"

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Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is the Marta S. Weeks Endowed Chair in Latin American Studies and professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Michelle Stephens is the Dean of the Humanities at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies.

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