After water, sand is the most used resource on earth. Although this humble resource is
seldom thought about, its diverse usage in construction, infrastructure, glass, electronics …

Against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis of faith in modern reasoning, work on
islands and with island cultures has come to the fore in the development of alternative, non …

In this second review of recent cultural geography research, I use the concept of The Critical
Zone (originally from US Geoscience) as a lens. The environment is far too voluminous a …

New and emerging threats to underwater cultural heritage also have implications for
international regimes of protection. These include metal pirates, sand mafias, deep seabed …

The papers in this forum on Spaces and Politics of Aesthetics share a concern with
analyzing relationships between politics and aesthetics in ways that question humanist …

In its age of global crisis, sand has acquired a conspicuous profile as an urban resource and
undercover vector of statecraft. Amidst mounting reports of the disastrous effects of sand …

With what intentions and expectations does one arrive at reading a new philosophical text?
In the case of the late Martinican thinker Édouard Glissant, engaging with his work usually …

Wakefield Poole's 1971 pornographic arthouse film Boys in the Sand stages a lavish
cruising encounter in Fire Island's Meat Rack, a globally rare ecosystem now threatened by …

Amitav Ghosh's observations on science fiction in The Great Derangement have been
discussed widely, but less attention has been paid to his comments about" serious fiction," a …

This thesis charts Fire Island, America's first gay and lesbian town, as a site of precarious
encounter, a queer narrative reservoir both activated and imperilled by the leisure …