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Islandness as Narratives of Relation

open access: yesShima, 2022
This article uses literature on islands and islandness, coloniality, creole identity, indigenous ontology and settler studies to abstract a typology of islandness.
S. Waite
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rural Islandness as a Lens for (Rural) HCI

open access: yesACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2021
This article contributes to research that aims to better understand and describe the rural context for rural computing. We argue that the particularities of rurality are heightened by the experience of ‘islandness’.
Sarah Robinson   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2021
Islandness is often considered to be a disadvantage. However, it has helped the residents of islands to delay, deter, and, in some cases, totally insulate themselves from COVID-19.
Karl Agius   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Themes Related to Islandness in Tourism Logos: Island versus Non-Island Tourism Destinations

open access: yesJournal of Marine and Island Cultures, 2021
Islands hold a special place in the hearts and minds of travelers. The depiction of islands as a paradise and the sense of idyllic fantasy that travellers invoke with respect to islands is, in essence, a rudimentary attempt to brand islands.
Susan C. Graham
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2021
Following island studies scholars’ suggestion to think “with the archipelago” in order to denaturalize and de-territorialize the object of study and grant more attention to decolonization processes and mobilities, this paper uses a gender perspective and
M. Giuffré
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia)

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2021
In its initial incarnation, island studies regarded islands as highly distinct entities that justified a relatively closed discipline. This orientation was first widened by address to issues such as the linkage of (pre-existent) islands to adjacent areas
C. Fleury, P. Hayward
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sampling design may obscure species–area relationships in landscape-scale field studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We investigated 1) the role of area per se in explaining anuran species richness on reservoir forest islands, after controlling for several confounding factors.
Bueno, Anderson Saldanha   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Tourism industry responses to public-private partnership arrangements for destination management organisations in small island economies: a case study of Jersey, Channel Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Since the 1970s, in many developed countries, governance arrangements for tourism have been revised in response to significant challenges faced by national economies and the associated changing political contexts.
Chaperon, Samantha
core   +1 more source

String islands [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of High Energy Physics, 1999
An erroneous example removed.
Dabholkar, Atish, Harvey, Jeffrey A.
openaire   +2 more sources

Island biogeography

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2021
Islands have fascinated biologists since the days of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and before, providing the inspiration for substantial theoretical development that has advanced our understanding of global biodiversity patterns and the mechanisms that underpin them.
Matthews, T.J., Triantis, K.
openaire   +3 more sources

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