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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 the ocean as a philosophical, navigational and knowledge making interface.
List of contents
List of Figures xiii List of Contributors xv Preface xviii Acknowledgements xxvi 1 Aquapelagos: An Ontology of Integrated Aquatic and Terrestrial Assemblages 1
Philip Hayward 2
Shima, Shimaguni and Aquapelagic Assemblages 22
Jun'ichiro Suwa 3 Making Aquapelagic Place in Jersey: The Ecrehous and Minquiers Reefs 31
Christian Fleury and Henry Johnson 4 The Precarious Aquapelagic Assemblage of the Grand Banks (Northwest Atlantic) 47
Philip Hayward 5 Colonial Legacies and Restoration Futures: Examining the Risks of Dispossession from Coral Reef Restoration in the Indonesian Aquapelago 65
Jessica Vandenberg 6 The Flower Garden Banks and the Parameters of Aquapelagic Sanctuary 82
Philip Hayward 7 The Juan Fernandez Islands in Transition: Cruise Tourism, the Commodification of Nature and the Establishment of a National Park 98
Elizabeth Chant and Natalia Gándara Chacana 8 The Entangled Island: Katchatheevu and Indo-Lankan Maritime Relations 119
Arup Chatterjee 9 Lenapehoking/New York: An Estuarine Aquapelago 140
Philip Hayward and May Joseph 10 We, The Submerged: (Non)Humans, Race and Aquapelagic Relation: Notes from New York 157
Ayasha Guerin Afterword: Things, Things That Matter and the Value of Aquapelagic Thinking 173
Mike Evans Index 181
About the author
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.
Summary
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 the ocean as a philosophical, navigational and knowledge making interface.
