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Islands of relationality and resilience: The shifting stakes of the Anthropocene
Author(s) -
Chandler David,
Pugh Jonathan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12459
Subject(s) - anthropocene , foregrounding , resilience (materials science) , posthuman , environmental ethics , set (abstract data type) , sociology , history , epistemology , geography , philosophy , computer science , physics , thermodynamics , linguistics , programming language
In recent decades, island studies scholars have done much to disrupt static notions of the island form, increasingly foregrounding how islands form part of complex networks of relations, assemblages and flows. In this paper, we shift the terms of debate more explicitly to relationality in the Anthropocene. We consider the implications and challenges that a wider set of debates, particularly surrounding island “resilience,” concerning the Anthropocene in the social sciences and humanities pose for island studies.