Aquapelagos

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.

“The aquapelago has become a seminal framework for shifting debate in island scholarship beyond the land-locked island and towards engagements with watery surroundings. Aquapelagos: Integrated Terrestrial and Marine Assemblages makes a major contribution to aquapelago thinking. It is not only indispensable for Island Studies but significant for the shifting stakes of broader debate in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For, by foregrounding the power of thinking with terrestrial-aquatic continua, of emergent patchworks of dynamic relational (un)becoming, the aquapelago is a powerful engagement with today’s crisis of faith in modern frameworks of reasoning, a unique challenge to the human/nature divide.”—Jonathan Pugh, Professor of Island Studies, Newcastle University (UK). Co-author (with David Chandler) (2021) Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds, University of Westminster Press“What is an ‘aquapelago’? The answer leads readers to question mainstream understandings of socio-spatial existence. The opening discussion of Hau’ofa’s Pacific ‘sea of islands’ framework reveals ‘the island’ as a limited construct stemming from a terrestrial, Euro-centric tradition. The chapters then present examples by diverse authors who attend to the socio–olitical–cological–oceanographic dynamics of space and place in historical context, combined with the critical stakes of global climate change. This is essential reading for scholars emerging from generations of thwarted justice and evaded settler colonial responsibility in search of reparative onto-epistemologies to enable the sovereignty and survival of the world’s most vital aquapelagic assemblages.”—Amelia Moore, Associate Professor University of Rhode Island, USA“A dozen years after the concept was introduced to Island Studies, the longawaited international anthology dedicated to empirical and critical theoretical discussions on the aquapelago is here. It assembles a selection of essays demonstrating the formidable scope and strength of the aquapelago as lens for inquiry into the connection between land and sea and the position of humans and non-humans in terrestrial and marine assemblages. This book unlocks island scholarship’s potential as analytic optic in progressive projects (re)thinking and (re)imagining environmental, social and existential crises across the globe. Aquapelagos is a welcome collection that anyone interested in shorelines –and in the consequences that changes in the ways the water and the land influence each other –have on our lives.”—Firouz Gaini, Professor, University of the Faroe Islands

• 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