Relationality and island studies in the anthropocene

Abstract

The island has become arguably one of the most emblematic figures of the Anthropocene. It is regularly invoked as exemplary of the changing stakes of our planet. This generates a crucially important role for island studies scholars; to explore, question, but now perhaps also trouble, some fundamental debates about islands in the Anthropocene. This paper picks up a particularly recurrent theme for island scholarship in recent decades-relationality and islands-and reorientates this within the stakes of the Anthropocene; discussing some implications for island studies, island ontology and resilience ethics.