Many Anthropocene scholars provide us with the key take home message that they are writing ‘after the end of the world’. Not because they are writing about apocalypse, but because they are engaging the Anthropocene after the profound crisis of faith in Western modernity which has swept across academia in recent decades. Here the dominant problematic of contemporary Anthropocene thinking has rapidly turned away from modernity’s human/nature divide to that of ‘relational entanglements’. Thus, Anthropocene scholarship is taking a particular interest in geographical forms and cultures which are held to bring this problematic to the fore for more intensive interrogation. In this article, we examine how the figure of the island as a liminal and transgressive space has facilitated Anthropocene thinking, working with and upon island forms and imaginations to develop alternatives to hegemonic, modern, ‘mainland’, or ‘one world’ thinking. Thus, whilst islands, under modern frameworks of reasoning, were reductively understood as isolated, backward, dependent, vulnerable, and in need of saving by others, the island is being productively re-thought in and for more recent Anthropocene thinking. We explain how islands have shifted from the margins in a number of international debates, becoming key sites for understanding relational entanglements, enabling alternative forms of thought and practice in the Anthropocene.

许多人类世学者向我们提供了重要的带回家的信息，即他们“在世界末日之后”写作。这不是因为他们在写关于启示的书，而是因为他们在经历了近几十年来席卷学术界的对西方现代性的深刻信仰危机之后从事人类世界。在这里，当代人类世思想的主要问题已迅速从现代性的人与自然鸿沟转向“关系纠缠”。因此，人类世学者对地理形式和文化特别感兴趣，这些地理形式和文化被认为可以使这一问题更加突出地进行深入的审问。在本文中，我们将探讨岛上的边缘和越界空间如何促进人类世间的思考，与岛屿形式和想象力一起工作，并发展出霸权，现代，“大陆”或“一个世界”思维的替代方案。因此，尽管在现代推理框架下，人们对岛屿的理解是孤立的，落后的，依赖的，易受伤害的，并且需要其他人的救助，但人们正在对岛屿进行生产性的重新思考，并考虑到更新世人类的思想。我们在许多国际辩论中解释了岛屿是如何从边缘转移的，如何成为理解关系纠缠的关键场所，从而在人类世间实现了其他形式的思想和实践。并且需要其他人的救助，该岛正在重新进行富有生产力的重新思考，并提出了新的人类世纪的思想。我们在许多国际辩论中解释了岛屿是如何从边缘转移的，如何成为理解关系纠缠的关键场所，从而在人类世间实现了其他形式的思想和实践。并且需要其他人的救助，该岛正在重新进行富有生产力的重新思考，并提出了新的人类世纪的思想。我们在许多国际辩论中解释了岛屿是如何从边缘转移的，如何成为理解关系纠缠的关键场所，从而在人类世间实现了其他形式的思想和实践。