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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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If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies

Island Studies Journal
Island studies has had much to say about why understanding perceptions of islandness matters for understanding the world, and it has often questioned what islandness is.
Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, Asinate Mausio   +3 more
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Anywhere but here: Experiences of islandness in Pearl River Delta island tourism

Island Studies Journal, 2020
This study considers the phenomenology of ‘islandness’ by analysing the experiences of tourists, islanders, and migrant tourism workers on two Chinese islands in the South China Sea.
Zhikang Wang, Mia M. Bennett
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Understanding “Islandness”

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 Foley, Laurie Brinklow, Jack Corbett, Ilan Kelman, Carola Klöck, Stefano Moncada, Michelle Mycoo, Patrick Nunn, Jonathan Pugh, Stacy-ann Robinson, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Rory Walshe   +11 more
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Shored curfews: Constructions of pandemic islandness in contemporary Sri Lanka. [PDF]

Marit Stud, 2022
This paper explores COVID-19 pandemic biopolitics in Sri Lanka through tropes of “islanding” and segregation by discussing how notions of island isolation, insularity, and geo-spatial boundedness have been transformed from their colonial origins to our ...
Godamunne V, Abdeen AJ, Zoysa RS.
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Islandness or Smallness? A Comparative Look at Political Institutions in Small Island States [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2006
In order to explicate the relevance of the island dimension for political categories, for each of seven political institutions, a series of four comparisons are conducted on a global basis.
Dag Anckar
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Reviewing the impact of the Confederation Bridge [PDF]

, 2007
Islands are the challenging targets of a global pursuit in the closing of gaps, their distinct geography so far having seemingly eluded and mocked both human ingenuity and terra firma.
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Stepping-stones to the Edge: Artistic Expressions of Islandness in an Ocean of Islands [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2013
Since the earliest of times, islands have captured the artistic imagination—and, often, for the artist who finds his or her muse in being ‘islanded’, the smaller the island the better.
Laurie Brinklow
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Immigrants, islandness and perceptions of quality-of-life on Prince Edward Island, Canada [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2014
This paper explores perceptions of immigrant quality-of-life (QOL) and islandness in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and compares these perceptions to those of Canadian-born residents of the same provincial capital.
Peter Kitchen, Nazeem Muhajarine, Bruce Newbold, Allison Williams, Kathleen Wilson   +4 more
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Artificialization and Islandness on the Spanish Tourist Coast

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2014
This article analyses recent trends in coastal urban growth, mainly prompted by tourism in its various forms, experienced along the Spanish Mediterranean coasts and the Canary Islands, with a special focus on the Balearic Islands.
Pons Antoni, Rullan Onofre
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