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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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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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Islandness Within Climate Change Narratives of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Island Studies Journal, 2018 Small island developing states (SIDS) are portrayed as icons of climate change impacts, with assumed islandness characteristics being used to emphasize vulnerability.
Ilan Kelman
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Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2023 Islandness is a contested concept, not just between disciplines but also cultures, entangled with what islands, island studies, and island identity are understood to be. The purpose of this article is to explore some of these different meanings, without necessarily unifying or reconciling them, with the aim of keeping multiple understandings of ...
Aideen M Foley +2 more
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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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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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Transformations, 2021 This article examines the serial transformation and resignification of a small islet off the coast of Madeira over the last 250 years. The first phase saw the Ilhéu do Diego modified into a fort (Forte de São José), linked to the mainland, and the ...
Vincente Bicudo de Castro +1 more
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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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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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