Dr Jonathan Pugh
PRESENT EMPLOYMENT
  • 2007– Senior Academic Fellow in Territorial Governance; University of Newcastle, UK.

OTHER PRESENT POSITIONS

  • 2008 – Honorary Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy; University of Westminster.
  • 2005 –Member of ‘The Great Debate’Newcastle public debating programme.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND EDUCATION

  • 2004 – 2014 Director ‘The Spaces of Democracy’ network (co-founded with Doreen Massey and Chantal Mouffe).
  • 2003 – 2005 Director of the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office Caribbean regional programme ‘Developing Institutional Capital in the Fisherfolk Communities of the Caribbean’
  • 2005-2010. United Kingdom Research Council’s Fellowship in Territorial Governance (EP/C509005/1).
  • 2002 – 2004. Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship, Royal Holloway, University of London/Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. ‘Developing Institutional Capital in the Neo-Liberal Era: Caribbean Environmental Planning’. (ESRC: R00271204. Graded ‘Outstanding’)

1998-2001. Royal Holloway, University of London PhD (ESRC studentship: R00429834850). ‘Deconstructing Participatory Environmental Planning: Dispositions of Power in Barbados and St Lucia.’

KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Small Islands and Archipelagos
- Contemporary CaribbeanDevelopment
-Participatory development
-Changing natureof radical politics today

  • Jonathan’s main area of research is islands and archipelagos. He is particularly notedfor hisdevelopment of what has come to be known as the 'relational turn' in island studies, exploring the relationalcharacteristics that disrupt insularisland geographies. To this end, Jonathan has produced a number of influential publicationsand recently started work on amonographthat both explores the characteristics of the relational turn and howthis cannowbe extended into new directions.
  • In addition tothis interest in islands and archipelagos, Jonathan has also been involved in a range of practical and transformative participatory programmes in the Caribbean. For example, co-initiating a seven-country programme employing 128 Caribbean fisherpeople funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to stimulate the development of fishing community networks across the eastern Caribbean archipelago.Drawing upon such practical programmes, Jonathan haspublished a number of theoretical critiques of participatory development (Environment and Planning D: society and space, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Progress in Human Geography; Antipode; Area; Geoforum; Geography Compass, for examples).
  • Such concerns often intersect withJonathan's interest in the changing nature of radical politics today.In 2004 Jonathan launched the 'Spaces of Democracy' network with Chantal Mouffe and Doreen Massey. Illustrative of strong impact and engagement, the network ran until 2014 and involved 17 institutions worldwide and examined the changingcharacter of radical politics today. Throughout this times Jonathan launched and then became editor of the online magazine Radical Politics Today. In 2009 Jonathan edited the book ‘What is Radical Politics Today?’, which was covered in a range of outlets (see below) and launched by the British Council at Canada House, Trafalgar Square.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Pugh, J (monograph in progress) Relationality and Islands.
  • Pugh. J. A phenomenology of archipelagos: from thinking with to within the archipelago. Chapter accepted for
  • ‘Anthology:Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations’. Editors: Michelle Stephens and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
  • Grove K, Pugh J. Adaptation Machines or the biopolitics of adaptation. Chapter accepted for: Lawrence,J; Bohland,J; Davoudi,S; Knox,P, ed. The Resilience Machine
  • Pugh J and Grove, K. Assemblage, Transverality and Participation in the Neoliberal University, EPD: society and space, 2017, 35, 6, 1134–1152.
  • Pugh, J. (with The Analogue University) Academicidentitiesinthemanageduniversity: Neoliberalism and resistance at Newcastle University,UK, Australian University Review, 59, 2, 23-36.
  • Pugh J. (with The Analogue University) Control, resistance and the ‘Data University’: towards a third wave critique. Antipode 2017.
  • Pugh J. A sceptical approach to ‘the everyday’: Relating Stanley Cavell and Human Geography. Geoforum 2017, 79, 36-45.
  • Pugh, J. (2017). Postcolonial development,(non) sovereignty and affect: living on in the wake of Caribbean political independence.Antipode,49(4), 867-882.
  • Pugh J. The relational turn in island geographies: bringing together island, sea and ship relations and the case of the Landship. Social and Cultural Geography 2016, 17(8), 1040-1059.
  • Pugh J, Grydehøj A, Pinya X, Cooke G, Doratlı N, Elewa A, Kelman I, Pugh J, Schick L, Swaminathan R. Returning from the Horizon: Introducing Urban Island Studies. Urban Island Studies 2015, 1(1), 1-19.
  • Grove K, Pugh J. Assemblage Thinking and Participatory Development: Potentiality, Ethics, Biopolitics. Geography Compass 2015, 9(1), 1-13.
  • Pugh J. Resilience, Complexity and Post-Liberalism. Area 2014, 46(3), 313-319.
  • Pugh J. Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago. Island Studies Journal 2013, 8(1), 9-24.
  • Pugh J. Speaking Without Voice: Participatory Planning, Acknowledgment, and Latent Subjectivity in Barbados. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2013, 103(5), 1266-1281.
  • Pugh J, Gabay C, Williams AJ. Beyond the securitisation of development: The limits of intervention, developmentisation of security and repositioningof purpose in the UK Coalition Government’s policy agenda. Geoforum 2013, 44, 193-201.
  • Pugh J. Wittgenstein, Shakespeare and Metaphysical Wit.Philosophy and Literature2012, 36(1), 238-248.
  • Pugh J. The Stakes of Radical Politics have Changed: Post-crisis, Relevance and the State.Globalizations 2010, 7(1-2), 289-301.
  • Pugh J, ed. (2009) What is radical politics today?. Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan.
  • Pugh J, for the ‘Spaces of Democracy’ network. (2008) What are the consequences of the ‘spatial turn’ for how we understand politics today? A proposed research agenda. Progress in Human Geography, 33(5), 579-586.
  • Pugh J, and Momsen JH, ed. (2006) Environmental Planning in the Caribbean. UK: Ashgate.
  • Pugh J. (2005) The disciplinary effects of communicative planning in Soufriere, St. Lucia: Governmentality, hegemony and space-time-politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(3), 307-321.
  • Pugh J. (2005) Social transformation and participatory planning in St Lucia. Area, 37(4), 384-392.
  • Pugh J, and Potter RB, ed. (2003) Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from Practice. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Potter RB, Pugh J. (2002) Planning without Plans and the Neo-Liberal State: The Case of St Lucia, West Indies. Third World Planning Review, 23(3), 323-340.
  • Pugh J, Potter RB. (2000) Rolling Back the State and Physical Development Planning: the case of Barbados. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21(2), 183-199.

International guest lectures and invited keynotes:International guest lectures at the Universities of Taipei, West Indies, Westminster, London, Aberdeen, Zurich, Cornell, California, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Harvard, and Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. Four invited Keynote Addresses at international island studies conferences.

Reviews of work:Work has been reviewed in a range of outlets, including New Statesman, Red Pepper, Soundings, the Big Issue, Compass, the British Council, Catholic Herald, Left Foot Forward, Fabian Review, Total Politics, Town and Country Planning and the Times Higher Educational Supplement. It has also been recommended by authors including Neal Lawson (Gordon Brown’s speechwriter), Tom Bentley (Policy Director for Australia's Deputy Prime Minister), Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Michael Hardt, Noel Castree, Ruth Lister, Bob Rowthorn, James Tully, Catherine Fieschi (Chair British Council, Counterpoint), Emily Young, Achin Vanaik, Avital Ronell.

Editorial Board of Island Studies Journal; Book Reviews Editorial member Island Studies Journal; Editorial; Board of Shima: the international journal of research into island cultures; Editorial Board Resilience: International Policies,Practices and Discourses; Editorial Board of the Journal of Intervention and State-Building; Founder and Chief Editor Radical Politics Today (2004-2014). Jonathan is also on the Steering Committee of International Geographical Union on Islands. One of Jonathan’s most enjoyable achievements was to be voted by PhD and Masters students studying at the Faculty of Humanities of Social Sciences, Newcastle University, to give the annual plenary lecture (2014) to PhD and Masters students in the Faculty for his work on the relational turn in island studies.

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