{"product_id":"contemporary-archipelagic-thinking-michelle-stephens-9781786612762","title":"Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Toward New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Archipelagic Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e takes as point of departure the insights of Antonio Ben?ez 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\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003etakes questions that have explored the Caribbean and expands them to a global, Anthropocenic framework. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book includes 21 chapters, a series of poems and an Afterword from both senior and junior scholars in American Studies, Archaeology, Biology, Cartography, Digital Mapping, Environmental 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786612763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786612762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d","brand":"Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983122956543,"sku":"9781786612762","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e37f5bb0-4537-4ab0-8f98-5e8f34b103e5.jpg?v=1683264799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contemporary-archipelagic-thinking-michelle-stephens-9781786612762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}