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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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The Rhythm of Non Places: Marooning the Embodied Self in Depthless Space [PDF]

, 2015
Taking as its starting point the spatiotemporal rhythms of landscapes of hyper-mobility and transit, this paper explores how the process of “marooning” the self in a radically placeless (and depthless) space—in this instance a motorway traffic island on ...
Roberts, Les
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Massive islands [PDF]

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020
Abstract We comment on the role of the graviton mass in recent calculations of the Page curve using holographic ideas. All reliable calculations of the Page curve in more than 2+1 spacetime dimensions have been performed in systems with massive gravitons.
Geng, Hao, Karch, Andreas
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What the sea portends: a reconsideration of contested island tropes [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2013
This paper argues for a shift in the focus of island-themed scholarship away from theories of islandness toward an engagement with psychologies of island experience. The former project has become mired in intractable dilemmas.
Pete Hay
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Islands and despots [PDF]

, 2012
This paper challenges a conventional wisdom: that when discussing political systems, small is democratic. And yet, can there be paradises without serpents?
Acemoglu D., Anckar D., Anckar D., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Ballantyne R. M., Benedict B., Birkett D., Boissevain J., Boissevain J., Bongie C., Bray M., Bray M., Cadigan S. T., Christensen J., Christianson J. R., Clegg P., Cohen A. P., Cooper A. F., Crocombe R. G., Dahl R., Dash J. M., de Montesquieu C. L. S., Domínguez P., Everson S., Fletcher L., Godfrey Baldacchino, Golding W., Helliwell J. F., Hintjens H. M., Hirschman A. O., Huxley A., Hymer S., Kersell J. E., Klomp A., Knox A. D., Lijphart A., Lillis K. M., Lowenthal D., Loxley D., May R., McCall G., Moore B., Ott D., Payne A., Payne D., Peters D. C., Rainnie A., Redfield P., Rich R., Rousseau J.-J., Rousseau J.-J., Royle S. A., Scase R., Schumacher E. F., Shand R. T., Singham A. W., Singham A. W., Smith B. C., So'o A., Souhami D., Sutton P. K., Thoren V. E., van Bakel M. A., Weale D., Weaver-Hightower R., Wells H. G., Wood D. P. J.   +71 more
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The diabetes epidemic in Malta [PDF]

, 2020
A note of appreciation and acknowledgement is forwarded to Professor Julian Mamo, Professor Josanne Vassallo and Professor Neville Calleja for their continuous support and advice during the academic progression.Aim: The small European Mediterranean ...
Cuschieri, Sarah
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"Islands"

, 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, Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman   +2 more
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Critical islands [PDF]

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021
Abstract We discuss a doubly-holographic prescription for black holes in braneworlds with a vanishing cosmological constant. It involves calculating Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces in AdS black funnel spacetimes attached to braneworld black holes in the critical Randall- Sundrum II model.
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Envisioning the Archipelago [PDF]

, 2011
Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relations of islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island and continent/mainland.
Baldacchino, G, Farbotko, C, Harwood, A, McMahon, E, Stratford, E   +4 more
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Islandness of Sveti Stefan: A Collection of Particular Manifestations Through Time

Island Studies Journal
Sveti 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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