Turbulent Waters in Three Parts

Abstract

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Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography

“…As the postcolonial Caribbean writers and their interlocuters into geography suggest, an oceanic perspective also suggests that we think differently about space. As islands, waves, and tidal cycles all repeat amidst ongoing differentiation, space is continually remade, relationally, through lateral movements but also through churning, turbulence, and the formation of invisible maritime and submarine routes that sediment out of human and nonhuman interactions (Chandler and Pugh, 2021;Lehman et al, 2021;Pugh, 2013Pugh, , 2016Stratford et al, 2011). Furthermore, the materiality of the ocean confounds modernist distinctions between human, nature, and environment.…”