Anthropology Seminar Series
Date | Thursday 25 March 2021 |
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Time | 3:10pm - 4:30pm |
Where | University of Waikato - K.G.06 or Zoom (https://waikato.zoom.us/j/95640554789) |
Presenter | Michael Goldsmith |
Contact | Fiona McCormack |
Contact email | fiona.mccormack@waikato.ac.nz |
Admission Cost | Free |
'Island Studies' in Crisis
A recent essay by David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh – ‘Anthropocene Islands: There are only islands after the end of the world’ (Dialogues in Human Geography, 2021) – purports to offer a new way of using islands as a resource for thinking about the Anthropocene. In the presenters view, their approach is seriously misguided. In the first part of this seminar, the presenter will give reasons for his stance. In the second part, he will suggest an alternative way of thinking about islands, or at least some islands, in the Anthropocene Epoch, a way that is more grounded in urgent concrete realities. If we define crisis as a moment when critical choices have to be made, then what the presenter refers to as a crisis of so-called ‘Island Studies’ could still be turned to good use.