Aquapelagos is a cross disciplinary volume that is geared to a general undergraduate and non-specialist readership while also being rigorous and theoretically exciting for doctoral and advanced researchers of climate and ocean studies. It foregrounds the ocean as a philosophical, navigational and knowledge making interface.

Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, editor of the journal Shima and a strategic advisor for the River Cities Network. His research addresses oceanic, island, coastal and riverine environments with particular regard to issues of cultural heritage, tourism and representation. He has published articles in journals such as Anthropocenes, Island Studies Journal, Lagoonscapes, Small States and Territories and Transformations and has written and edited 14 books.

May Joseph is Professor of Social Science at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA and author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (2022); ghosts of Lumumba (2020), Sealog: Indian Ocean to New York (2019); Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination (2013); and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999). Joseph is co-editor (with Sudipta Sen) of Terra Aqua: The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia (2022); and co-Editor of Performing Hybridity (1999). She co-edits three book series from Routledge, Critical Climate Studies, Ocean and Island Studies, and Kaleidoscope: Ethnography, Art, Architecture and Archaeology.

Introduction: The aquapelago as an integrated assemblage
1. The aquapelagic context of the Minquiers and Écréhous reefs
2. Colonial legacies and restoration futures: Examining the risks of dispossession from coral reef restoration in the Indonesian aquapelago
3. Shifting to an aquapelagic orientation: Ritchie's Archipelago (Andaman Islands)
4. The Juan Fernandez Islands in transition
5. "Extraordinarily Hazardous": The precarious aquapelagic assemblage of the Grand Banks
6. Reading the Maldives aquapelago through monsoonal airs
7. New York: An Estuarine Aquapelago
8. Colonial extraction and Black liberation in the New York Oyster commons
Afterword