Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking takes as point of departure the
insights of Antonio Benitez Rojo, Derek Walcott and Edouard
Glissant on how to conceptualize the Caribbean as a space in which
networks of islands are constitutive of a particular epistemology
or way of thinking. This rich volume takes questions that have
explored the Caribbean and expands them to a global, Anthropocenic
framework. This anthology explores the archipelagic as both a
specific and a generalizable geo-historical and cultural formation,
occurring across various planetary spaces including: the
Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, the Caribbean basin, the Malay
archipelago, Oceania, and the creole islands of the Indian Ocean.
As an alternative geo-formal unit, archipelagoes can interrogate
epistemologies, ways of reading and thinking, and methodologies
informed implicitly or explicitly by more continental paradigms and
perspectives. Keeping in mind the structuring tension between land
and water, and between island and mainland relations, the
archipelagic focuses on the types of relations that emerge, island
to island, when island groups are seen not so much as sites of
exploration, identity, sociopolitical formation, and economic and
cultural circulation, but also, and rather, as models. The book
includes 21 chapters, a series of poems and an Afterword from both
senior and junior scholars in American Studies, Archaelogy,
Biology, Cartography, Digital Mapping, Enviromental Studies,
Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, Politics, Comparative Literary
and Cultural Studies, and Sociology who engage with Archipelago
studies. Archipelagic Studies has become a framework with a robust
intellectual genealogy.. The particular strength of this handbook
is the diversity of fields and theoretical approaches in the
Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences that the included
essays engage with. There is an editor's introduction in which they
meditate about the specific contributions of the archipelagic
framework in interdisciplinary analyses of multi-focal and
transnational socio-political and cultural context, and in which
they establish a dialogue between archipelagic thinking and network
theory, assemblages, systems theory, or the study of islands,
oceans and constellations.
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