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Islandness of Sveti Stefan: A Collection of Particular Manifestations Through Time
Island Studies JournalSveti Stefan, a tiny Montenegrin island with a rich historical and cultural background, remains underexplored in academic research. Considering its physicality (shaped by nature and human intervention), circumstances that determined and directed its ...
Goran Koprivica
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 community: identity formulation via acceptance through the environment in Saaremaa, Estonia [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2017 This paper examines normative concepts of community identity expressed by inhabitants of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, via 20 interviews of permanent residents.
Jana Raadik Cottrell
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