“…Similarly, although geography tempts us to regard archipelagos as single units, the various islands of the Maldives (Lama, 2018), Kinmen (Lee et al, 2017), Federated States of Micronesia (Perkins & Krause, 2018), and Zhoushan (Yue et al, 2017) each present unique experiences, characteristics, and relationships. At a fundamental level, the relationality of island geography is such that recognition of a place as an island is culturally and temporally conditioned (Ducros, 2018;Grydehøj, 2018aGrydehøj, , 2018b. Most radically, theories of the Anthropocene challenge our understanding of "relation" itself (Pugh, 2018).…”