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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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, 2016 We were told that geo-politics is the great play of power across a solid continuous Euclid-ian surface. Cut apart by linear borders, the state system — a territori-ally based juridical formation — appeared to dominate all forms of sovereignty over individu-als and action.
Anselm Franke +2 more
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The Annals of Family Medicine, 2008 A clinician's chance encounter on the subway, after a long day seeing patients, prompts reflections on the nature of our interactions with our patients and with others we come across in our lives. Random yet precise, these interactions create a string of opportunities to witness other people's lives as well as our own.
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Islands in the fluid: islands are common in cosmology
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 Abstract We discuss the possibility of entanglement islands in cosmological spacetimes with a general perfect fluid with an equation of state w. We find that flat universes with time-symmetric slices where the Hubble parameter vanishes always have islands on that slice.
Ido Ben-Dayan +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks +5 more
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Island Studies JournalIsland 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 +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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