Jonathan Pugh is Reader in Island Studies, Newcastle University, UK. He has over 70 publications and is noted for his work on the ‘relational’ and ‘archipelagic’ turns in island studies, disrupting the figure of the insular island. Jonathan has held fellowships, given many international keynotes and invited lectures, including at Princeton, Harvard, Virginia Tech, London, Cornell, Vienna, Zurich, Trinity College Dublin, Rutgers, California, University of West Indies and National Taiwan Normal University. Jonathan’s recent work – Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (Pugh and Chandler, 2021) – examines how islands play an increasingly prominent role in Anthropocene critical thinking, knowledge and policy practices. Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk.
