Staff Profile
Professor Jonathan Pugh
Professor of Island Studies
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6425
- Personal Website: https://www.anthropoceneislands.online/
KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS
· Small Islands and Archipelagos
· Critical thought in the Anthropocene
· Contemporary Caribbean
· Participatory approaches
For full list of downloadable publications:
https://newcastle.academia.edu/JonathanPugh
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan-Pugh-3
OVERVIEW
Jonathan’s main areas of research are islands and archipelagos. He has around 100 publications and is particularly noted for his development of what has come to be known as the 'relational turn' in islands studies, producing a number of influential publications examining how contemporary scholarship disrupts insular and isolated island geographies. Jonathan has held visiting fellowships, given many international keynote addresses, and/or 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 presently focuses upon two key areas of work:
1] The figure of the island in the Anthropocene, where he has launched the 'Anthropocene Islands' initiative (https://anthropoceneislands.online). This gains its initial impetus from the book (2021) 'Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds' (co-written with David Chandler, University of Westminster Press, in paperback and freely downloadable https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/m/10.16997/book52/). It explores the widespread turn to working with islands for the generation of contemporary approaches to critical thinking, knowledge and policy practices associated with the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Islands initiative has a monthly reading group, early career group, a special 'Anthropocene Islands' section of Island Studies Journal, and holds regular conference sessions and workshops.
2] 'Abyssal Geography' (also with David Chandler) explores how the Caribbean has become enabling for the development of a highly distinctive approach to contemporary critical thought, which we draw out as 'abyssal thought'. Stimulated by recent developments in critical Black studies, rather than rethinking the human and the world (as in the relational and ontological turns), abyssal work is a figurative and meta-theoretical approach to the violence of modern and colonial ontological world-making. In 2023, Jonathan and David published the book 'The World as Abyss: the Caribbean and Contemporary Critical Thought in the Anthropocene' (Westminster University Press, paperback and freely downloadable https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/m/10.16997/book72/). Information on the 'Abyssal Geography' project can be found on the ‘Anthropocene Islands’ website here: https://www.anthropoceneislands.online/page-9.html
Jonathan has also been involved in a range of practical and transformative participatory programmes in the islands of the Caribbean. For example, co-initiating a seven-country programme employing 128 Caribbean fisherpeople funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to stimulate the development of fishing community networks across the eastern Caribbean archipelago. Drawing upon such practical programmes, Jonathan has published a number of critiques of participatory approaches (Environment and Planning D: society and space, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Progress in Human Geography; Antipode; Area; Geoforum; Geography Compass, for examples).
Finally, such concerns often intersect with Jonathan's general interest in the changing nature of critique. In 2004 Jonathan launched the 'Spaces of Democracy' network with Chantal Mouffe and Doreen Massey. The network ran until 2016, involved 18 institutions worldwide and examined the changing character of radical politics today. Throughout this time Jonathan launched and was editor of the online magazine Radical Politics Today. In 2009 Jonathan edited the book ‘What is Radical Politics Today?’, which was covered in a range of popular media and launched by the British Council at Canada House, Trafalgar Square.
FOR POTENTIAL PHD STUDENTS
Jonathan is interested in supervising PhD's on the following topics:-
· Small Islands and Archipelagos
· Critical thought in the Anthropocene
· Contemporary Caribbean
· Participatory approaches
PRESENT PHD SUPERVISION
- Sean Turner (2020-)
- Joe Dean (2023-)
TEACHING HONOURS
- Voted by PhD and Masters students studying at the Faculty of Humanities of Social Sciences, Newcastle University, to give the annual plenary lecture to PhD and Masters students in the Faculty (19th June, 2014).
- Nominated three times by undergraduate students for a Newcastle University Teaching Award.
- Innovation Fund for Teaching, Newcastle University: Pugh, J. Hewett, C. Williams, A. Tate S. and Large, A. Developing Discursive Skills for the workplace: piloting an interactive seminar series. Quality in Learning and Teaching (QuILT) (£4995) [2012].
To download publications
https://newcastle.academia.edu/JonathanPugh
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan-Pugh-3
Undergraduate Teaching
Globalisations, Culture and Development (GEO2103)
Dissertations (GEO3099).
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Articles
- Chandler D, Pugh J. Problematising the Geographic Subject: an Abyssal Approach. Dialogues in Human Geography 2024, Epub ahead of print.
- Pugh J. Human geography: not ending but worlding the modern subject in new ways. Dialogues in Human Geography 2024, ePub ahead of Print.
- Aideen F, Brinklow L, Corbett J, Kelman I, Klöck C, Moncada S, Mycoo M, Nunn P, Pugh J, Robinson S, Verena T, Walshe R. Understanding "Islandness". Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2023, 113(8), 1800-1817.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. The stakes of abyssal geography: Response to commentaries on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh’s 'Abyssal geography'. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2023, 44(2), 199-214.
- Pugh J. The lure of an unavailable world:The shifting stakes of contemporary critique. Area 2023, 55(3), 356-363.
- Gfollner B, Pugh J. The Americas: A Relational or Abyssal Geography? An interview with Jonathan Pugh. Journal of Transnational American Studies 2023, 14(1), 303-329.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. Abyssal Geography. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2023, 44(2), 199-214.
- Pugh J. Relational or Abyssal?. Political Geography 2022, 96, 102619.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. Interstitial and Abyssal Geographies. Political Geography 2022, 98, 102672.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. The Anthropocene Islands agenda. Dialogues in Human Geography 2021, 11(3), 448-452.
- Pugh J, deAngelo L, Angliker E. Mare Nostrum Interview: Jonathan Pugh. Mare Nostrum 2021, 12(2), 265-277.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. Islands and the rise of correlational epistemology in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the trope of the 'canary in the coalmine'. Island Studies Journal 2021, 16(1), 209-228.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. Anthropocene islands: There are only islands after the end of the world. Dialogues in Human Geography 2021, 11(3), 349-526.
- Chandler D, Pugh J. Islands of relationality and resilience: The shifting stakes of the Anthropocene. Area 2020, 52(1), 65-72.
- Pande R, Pugh J, Megoran N. (aka The Analogue University) Correlation in the data university. ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 2019, 18(6), 1184-1206.
- Pugh J. Relationality and Island Studies in the Anthropocene. Island Studies Journal 2018, 13(2), 93-110.
- Pugh J. Postcolonial Development, (Non)Sovereignty and Affect: Living On in the Wake of Caribbean Political Independence. Antipode 2017, 49(4), 867-882.
- The Analogue University, Pande R, Pugh J. Control, resistance and 'the data university': towards a third wave critique. Antipode 2017.
- Pugh J, Grove K. Assemblage, Transversality and Participation in the Neoliberal University. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2017, 35(6), 1134-1152.
- Morrish L, with the, Analogue University Writing Collective. Academic identities in the managed university: Neoliberalism and resistance at Newcastle University, UK. Australian Universities' Review 2017, 59(2), 23-35.
- Pugh J. A sceptical approach to ‘the everyday’: Relating Stanley Cavell and Human Geography. Geoforum 2017, 79, 36-45.
- Pugh J. The relational turn in island geographies: bringing together island, sea and ship relations and the case of the Landship. Social and Cultural Geography 2016, 17(8), 1040-1059.
- Pugh J, Grydehøj A, Pinya X, Cooke G, Doratlı N, Elewa A, Kelman I, Pugh J, Schick L, Swaminathan R. Returning from the Horizon: Introducing Urban Island Studies. Urban Island Studies 2015, 1(1), 1-19.
- Grove K, Pugh J. Assemblage Thinking and Participatory Development: Potentiality, Ethics, Biopolitics. Geography Compass 2015, 9(1), 1-13.
- Pugh J. Resilience, Complexity and Post-Liberalism. Area 2014, 46(3), 313-319.
- Pugh J. Speaking Without Voice: Participatory Planning, Acknowledgment, and Latent Subjectivity in Barbados. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2013, 103(5), 1266-1281.
- Pugh J. Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago. Island Studies Journal 2013, 8(1), 9-24.
- Pugh J, Gabay C, Williams AJ. Beyond the securitisation of development: The limits of intervention, developmentisation of security and repositioning of purpose in the UK Coalition Government’s policy agenda. Geoforum 2013, 44, 193-201.
- Pugh J. Wittgenstein, Shakespeare and Metaphysical Wit. Philosophy and Literature 2012, 36(1), 238-248.
- Pugh J. The Stakes of Radical Politics have Changed: Post-crisis, Relevance and the State. Globalizations 2010, 7(1-2), 289-301.
- Pugh J. The Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space: a new network exploring the disciplinary effects of the spatial turn. Space and Polity 2009.
- Pugh J, for the Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space network. What are the consequences of the ‘spatial turn’ for how we understand politics today? A proposed research agenda. Progress in Human Geography 2008, 33(5), 579-586.
- Pugh J. On the Political by Chantal Mouffe. Area 2007, 39(1), 130-131.
- Pugh J, Hewett C, Chandler D. Debating (de)territorial governance. Area 2007, 39(1), 107-109.
- Pugh J. Attending to the spatialisation of politics. Red Pepper 2007, 6-7.
- Pugh J. The disciplinary effects of communicative planning in Soufriere, St. Lucia: Governmentality, hegemony and space-time-politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2005, 30(3), 307-321.
- Pugh J. Social transformation and participatory planning in St Lucia. Area 2005, 37(4), 384-392.
- Pugh J. Problems of Delivering Aid to Developing Nations. ESRC Society Today 2005.
- Pugh J, Richardson P. Playing the donor's anxious game: Physical development planning legislative systems in the Eastern Caribbean. International Development Planning Review 2005, 27(4), 385-402.
- Pugh J. Environmental planning in Barbados: A confident state, isolated environmental movements, and anxious development consultants. Southeastern Geographer 2005, 45(2), 192-205.
- Pugh J. The real Caribbean war. The New Statesman 2004, 18/03/04.
- Pugh J. A Losing Battle Over Aid. The Guardian 2004, 13/01/04.
- Pugh J. The axis of western-style democracy. Jamaican Observer 2003.
- Pugh J. Hegemony and Exclusion in the Caribbean. The Bulletin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy 2003, 10(2), 6-9.
- Pugh J. Democracy in practice: recent developments at the MoBay Marine Park. Jamaican Observer 2003, 17-04-2003.
- Pugh J. Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation Evening News. An interview with Pugh, J. on the Launching of the Caribbean Fisherfolk Union. Broadcasting Caribbean Corporation Evening News 2003.
- Potter RB, Pugh J. Planning without Plans and the Neo-Liberal State: The Case of St Lucia, West Indies. Third World Planning Review 2002, 23(3), 323-340.
- Pugh J. A review of Ecotourism and Planning”. Leisure Tourism 2002, 23.
- Pugh J, Potter R. The Changing Face of Coastal Zone Management in Soufriere, St Lucia. Geography 2001, 86(3), 247-260.
- Pugh J. On Communicative Action and Power: The National Commission on Sustainable Development of Barbados. Caribbean Geography 2001, 12(1), 1-11.
- Pugh J, Potter RB. Rolling Back the State and Physical Development Planning: the case of Barbados. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2000, 21(2), 183-199.
- Pugh J, Potter R. An Overview and Critique of the Third National Physical Development Plan for Barbados. Centre for Developing Areas Research Papers 1999, 28, 21.
- Hitchcock PR, Pugh J, Cunningham JM, Bone AJ. Expression of Reg gene in insulin-secreting cell lines: effects of cytokine-induced stress. The British Diabetes Association Journal 1997, April.
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Authored Books
- Pugh J, Chandler D. The World as Abyss: the Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene. London: University of Westminster Press, 2023.
- Pugh J, Chandler D. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. London: University of Westminster Press, 2021.
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Bibliography
- Pugh J. Commentary and extensive bibliography on 'Human Geography and Islands'. Oxford Bibliographies 2021.
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Book Chapters
- Dawson H, Pugh J. The Lure of Island Studies: a cross-disciplinary perspective. In: Dierksmeier,L;Schön,F;Kouremenos,A;Condit,A;Palmowski,V, ed. European Islands Between Isolated and Interconnected Life Worlds: Interdisciplinary Long-Term Perspectives. University of Tubingen Press, 2021, pp.33-52.
- Pugh J. Resilience. In: Das,V; Fassin,D, ed. Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for dark times. Duke University Press, 2021, pp.225-242.
- Pugh J. The Affirmational Turn to Ontology in the Anthropocene: a critique. In: Stephens, M. and Martínez-San Miguel, Y, ed. Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020, pp.65-83.
- Grove K, Pugh J. Adaptation Machines or the biopolitics of adaptation. In: Lawrence, J; Bohland, J; Davoudi, S; Knox, P, ed. The Resilience Machine. Routledge, 2018, pp.110-125.
- Pugh J. Resilience as New Political Reality. In: Butler RW, ed. Resilience and Tourism. Wallington, Oxfordshire: CABI, 2017, pp.206-215.
- Pugh J. The returning terms of a small island culture: mimicry, inventiveness and suspension. In: Stratford, E ed, ed. Island Geographies: essays and conversations. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.
- Pugh J. Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago. In: Kelman, I. and G. Baldacchino, ed. Routledge Major Works Series: Island Studies. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K: Routledge, 2016.
- Pugh J. The Participation Paradox: Stories from St. Lucia. In: Besson J; Momsen J, ed. Caribbean Land and Development Revisited. London: Palgrave, 2007.
- Pugh J. Physical Development Planning in the Caribbean and the re-articulation of State power. In: Pugh J; Momsen JH, ed. Environmental Planning in the Caribbean. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.207.
- Pugh J. Doing research with NGOs. In: Desai V; Potter RB, ed. Doing development research. London: SAGE, 2006.
- Pugh J. Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: An Argument for Radical Democracy. In: Pugh J; Potter R, ed. Participatory Planning in the Caribbean. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, pp.203-220.
- Pugh J. A Consideration of Some of the Sociological Mechanisms Shaping the Adoption of Participatory Planning in Barbados. In: Pugh J; Potter, ed. Participatory Planning in the Caribbean. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, pp.118-137.
- Pugh J. Local Agenda 21 and the Third World. In: Desai V; Potter RB, ed. The Companion to Development Studies. London: Arnold, 2002, pp.289-294.
- Potter R, Pugh J. Caribbean urban futures. In: Potter R, ed. The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, pp.173-189.
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Edited Books
- Pugh J, ed. What is radical politics today?. Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.
- Pugh J, Momsen JH, ed. Environmental Planning in the Caribbean. UK: Ashgate, 2006.
- Pugh J, Potter RB, ed. Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from Practice. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
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Editorial
- Pande R, Pugh J, Megoran N, The Analogue University. Calling all journal editors:Bury the metrics page!. Political geography 2019, 68, A3-A5.
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Letter
- Pugh J. Third Way on the Beach. Prospect 2004, 102.
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Online Publications
- Pugh J. What is radical politics today? Asks Jonathan Pugh. London: Compass, 2009. Available at: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=5991.
- Pugh J. Reflections on space, time and governance. Re-Public, 2007. Available at: http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=116.
- Pugh J. British Report on fishing communities. St Lucia One-Stop, 2003. Available at: http://207.201.170.18/news/Nov.%2018a%2003.html.
- Hewett C, Lovatt M, O'Toole D, Pugh J, Moss O, Bryan J. The Great Debate. 2002. Available at: http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/.
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Reports
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Paton B. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of St Vincent. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Watson A. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of St Lucia. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Paton B, Richardson P. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of St Kitts and Nevis. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Paton B. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of Dominica. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Paton B. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of Carriacou. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Pierez D. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of Barbados. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Hinds E, Ifill C, Watson A. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: the case of Antigua. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J. Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean: a regional programme supported by the British High Commission. Barbados: United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2004. Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning.
- Pugh J, Potter R. An Overview of Physical Development Planning in St Lucia. Royal Holloway, University of London: CEDAR: Department of Geography, 2000. Centre for Developing Areas Research Papers 31.
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Reviews
- Pugh J. Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form. By Rizvana Bradley [Book review]. Cultural Geographies 2024, ePub ahead of Print.
- Pugh J. Review of Sea change: An atlas of islands in a rising ocean by Christina Gerhardt, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. Canadian Geographies 2023, 67(4), e47-e48.
- Pugh J. Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives. Beatriz Llenin-Figueroa. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London. Rowman and Littlefield. 2022. xxii + 273. ISBN 978-1-538-15144-0 (hbk). [Book review]. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2023, 44(1), 191-193.
- Pugh J. Review of 'Glissant and the middle passage: philosophy, beginning, abyss' by John E. Drabinski. Postcolonial Studies 2022, 25(1), 158-160.
- Pugh J. Review of Michael Wiedorn, Think like an archipelago: paradox in the work of Édouard Glissant. Island Studies Journal 2018, 13(2), 211-213.
- Pugh J. Review of Roberts. B.R. and Stephens M.A. (2017) Archipelagic American studies, Durham and London Duke University Press. Island Studies Journal 2017, 12(2), 329-330.
- Pugh J. Review of Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher (2017) Island genres, genre islands: Conceptualisation and representation in popular fiction, London and New York, Rowman and Littlefield International. Island Studies Journal 2017, 12(1), 255-256.
- Pugh J. Book review: Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction. Cultural Geographies 2017, 24(4), 651-652.
- Pugh J. Book Review: Islands: Nature and Culture. Cultural Geographies 2016, 23(2), 364-365.
- Pugh J. Book Review: 'For Space'; D. Massey. Cultural Geographies 2006, 14(3), 482-483.
- Pugh J. Book Review: Complex Problems, Negotiated Solutions: tools to reduce conflict in community development; M. Warner. Land Degradation & Development 2002, 13(1), 82-83.
- Pugh J. A review of Enlightenment Geography: the political languages of British geography 1650-1850. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2002, 27(1), 120-122.