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Remoteness, Islands and Islandness
Island Studies Journal, 2021 Through an explorative overview of a number of approaches to what remoteness is, in terms of language, discourse, and fantasy, how it is established spatially and temporally by movements and perspectives, by how connections are set up, and by how ...
Owe Ronström
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Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands' Energy Transitions
Island Studies Journal, 2023 This article employs heritage as a lens through which to research the roles of islandness in energy transition processes. Both in cases of islanders' initiatives toward renewable energy projects and in cases of resistance against such projects, memories ...
Marilena Mela
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Islandness in Human Rights, Human Rights in Islandness: Missing Voices
Island Studies Journal, 2023 Island Studies literature has rarely engaged with human rights law to scrutinise how the development of human rights standards and/or their (in)efficient implementation on islands contour the lives of islanders and islandness itself. Along similar lines,
Aikaterini Tsampi
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Island Studies Journal, 2021 Can mitigation of the spread and transmission of COVID-19 cases on islands, especially in the Caribbean, be attributed to the fact that they are just that: islands?
John N. Telesford
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A Sea Uprooted: Islandness and Political Identity on Chiloé Island, Chile
Island Studies Journal, 2019 In 2016, the people of Chiloé, an island in Southern Chile, mobilised against the Chilean state for a period of over three weeks. The conflict was triggered by an environmental crisis that affected the main economic activities of the island: salmon ...
Beatriz Bustos, Álvaro Román
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Saltwater Chronicles: reading representational spaces in selected book clubs in St. John's, Newfoundland [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2010 Saltwater Chronicles investigates the notion of “islandness” in contemporary Newfoundland readership through two in-depth case studies of book clubs as representational spaces in the elaboration of local knowledge and identities.
Jennifer Rottmann +2 more
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Island Transport Challenges: Four Island Jurisdictions; Seven Island Perspectives
Island Studies JournalIsland transport systems are as unique as the islands themselves, shaped by geography, politics, and community needs. Transport development raises key questions: does increased connectivity enhance or diminish islandness? Can large-scale projects balance
Abraham Leung, Stefan Baumeister
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Figurations of Islandness in Argentine Culture and Literature: Macedonio Fernández, Leopoldo Marechal, and César Aira [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2009 This article explores islandness in the River Plate imaginary. Two modern foundational “island texts” – Thomas More’s Utopia and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe – have exerted a formative influence on the Spanish-American colonial imagination, an ...
Norman Cheadle
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L'Espace Politique, 2022 Despite exceptional economic and social growth compared to other African states, the Mauritian state has long been considered a periphery of the world system, defined through two main stereotypes: a tropical island paradise for international tourists ...
Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir
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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. This paper celebrates the launch of Island Studies Journal in the context of a long and thrilling tradition of island studies scholarship.
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