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No future of island studies: Embracing island studies in plural
Island Studies Journal, 2023 This editorial conclusion looks back on how Island Studies Journal has developed from its start in 2006, up through the beginning of the current editorship in 2017, and through to the start of a new editorship in mid-2023. Island studies has transformed from being a close-knit community centred on a few key scholars to being a field composed of ...
Adam Grydehøj
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Island Studies Journal, 2022 In the emerging scene of non-western island studies, research done on the sinophone world mainly (but not exclusively) by sinophone scholars has become a conspicuous strand in the literature. Despite the diverse locations in focus, most research tends to functionally apply rather than organically engage with west-inflected island theories.
Gang Hong
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Islands, Island Studies, Island Studies Journal [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2006 Islands are sites of innovative conceptualizations, whether of nature or human enterprise, whether virtual or real. The study of islands on their own terms today enjoys a growing and wide-ranging recognition.
Godfrey Baldacchino
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Relationality and island studies in the Anthropocene
Island Studies Journal, 2018 The island has become arguably one of the most emblematic figures of the Anthropocene. It is regularly invoked as exemplary of the changing stakes of our planet. This generates a crucially important role for island studies scholars; to explore, question, but now perhaps also trouble, some fundamental debates about islands in the Anthropocene.
Jonathan Pugh
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Island Studies Journal, 2017 Island studies has developed into an established, interdisciplinary research field. It is important that island studies not only continue deepening its internal theoretical understandings but also reach out to other fields and regions that have received limited attention within island studies.
Adam Grydehøj
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Island Studies. Island Geography. but What is an Island? [PDF]
Miscellanea Geographica, 2011 Island Studies. Island Geography. but What is an Island? Introduction. There are institutes which research phenomena and processes taking place on islands. Such research is conducted nowadays among others at universities in France, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and ...
M. Jędrusik
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Island landscapes and European culture: An ‘island studies’ perspective
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, 2013 AbstractThe active imagining of a European identity needs to engage with the geographical possibilities, visualisations and performativities of place. It is all too easy but superficial and naive to consider geophysical parameters as the silent backdrop or empty canvas on which cultural initiatives unfold.
G. Baldacchino
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Island Studies Journal, 2008 The pursuit of nissology, or island studies, calls for a recentering of focus from mainland to island, away from the discourse of conquest of mainlanders, giving voice and platform for the expression of island narratives. Yet, studying islands ‘on their own terms’, in spite of its predilection for “authenticity”, is fraught with epistemological and ...
G. Baldacchino
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Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within
Island Studies Journal, 2022 Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position.
Y. Nadarajah +3 more
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Island studies and socio-economic development policies in East Asia
Island Studies Journal, 2022 The globalization of island studies has resulted in a greater recognition by island studies scholars of the need for more regional-based island research to encompass the diversity of island knowledge and experiences. Island research in East Asia provides
Meng Qu +5 more
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