Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago
Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago
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DOI：
10.24043/isj.273
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发表时间：
2013-05
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
J. Pugh
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作者：
J. Pugh
无论是在荷马还是柏拉图，莎士比亚还是赫x岛，整个岛屿都塑造了我们如何看待人性和我们在世界上的地位。 ，在一个岛 - 岛运动的世界中，而不是静态的形式。 （2011年）说，加拿大和澳大利亚等许多“大陆形式”是由成千上万的岛屿运动组成的群岛。 ：与群岛一起思考是什么意思？与人类的社会科学和人类相关的“空间转向”，这是我所说的“变态”的想法，这是我在这两种情况下对材料，文化和政治实践的改编和转变。争辩说，对群岛进行思考需要对我们进行分析和参与的方式进行重要的转变。
Whether in Homer or Plato, Shakespeare or Huxley, throughout history, thinking about islands has shaped how we think about human nature and our place in the world. However, to date archipelagos have received far less attention. This is problematic because we live, increasingly, in a world of island-island movements and not static forms. Not only in the more obvious cases of the Caribbean, Hawaii or the Philippines but, as Stratford et al (2011) say, many ‘continental forms’ like Canada and Australia are in fact archipelagos composed of thousands of island movements. To this list we can add more manufactured archipelagos: wind turbine arrays, industrial oil and military constellations. The key question therefore arises: what does it mean to think with the archipelago? This paper argues firstly that archipelagic thinking denaturalizes the conceptual basis of space and place, and therefore engages ‘the spatial turn’ presently sweeping the social sciences and humanities. Secondly, such thinking highlights the trope of what I call ‘metamorphosis’, of the adaptation and transformation of material, cultural and political practices through island movements. In both cases, I argue that thinking with the archipelago requires an important shift in how we frame analysis and engagement.