Even though the relational turn within Island Studies has long revoked the equation of islands with insularity, disconnectedness and backwardness, these ascriptions are still often deterministically attributed to islands, mainly by non-island scholars. Thereby these designations are not only reproduced, but connections, dynamics, different forms of embeddedness and entanglements remain overlooked. This paper has two main goals: (1) Adding to the relational turn in Island Studies by not only arguing for more inductive approaches to seriously engage with these situated and changing manifestations and meaningmakings of islands, and (2) by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malta, we introduce the concept of ‘islandscape’ (Broodbank 2000) to the Island Studies literature. Through the lens of islandscape, islands can be researched as nodal points of the local, national and global without reproducing ‘islandism’ while still acknowledging the importance of the island. The combination of -scape and assemblage-thinking which is already present within Island Studies makes it possible to address the tension between global and local and, rather, to look at which concrete, situated assemblages emerge within islandscape. In this sense, we propose to think of the island as islandscape from the very beginning of research, then to show how this islandscape is actually constituted and then to describe partial moments of stabilisation in terms of assemblages.

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1在岛上，岛上以及岛上进行研究：对岛景的思考

尽管“岛屿研究”内部的关系转向长期以来一直以孤立，疏离和落后来废除岛屿等式，但这些归因仍常常被确定性地归因于岛屿，主要是由非岛屿学者所为。因此，不仅复制了这些名称，而且仍然忽略了连接，动力学，不同形式的嵌入和纠缠。本文有两个主要目标：（1）不仅主张争夺更归纳的方法来认真地参与这些岛屿的不断变化的表现形式和意义的形成，还增加了岛屿研究的关系转向；（2）通过进行的人种学田野调查在马耳他，我们将“岛景”的概念（Broodbank 2000）引入到岛屿研究文献中。通过岛屿景观的镜头，可以将岛屿作为地方，国家和全球的节点来进行研究，而不会重现“岛屿主义”，同时仍然承认该岛屿的重要性。岛屿研究中已经存在的-scape和组合思想的组合，可以解决全球和本地之间的紧张关系，而可以查看哪些具体的组合出现在Islandscape中。从这个意义上讲，我们建议从研究之初就将该岛视为岛景，然后说明该岛景是如何构成的，然后以组合形式描述部分稳定时刻。岛屿研究中已经存在的-scape和组合思想的组合，可以解决全球和本地之间的紧张关系，而可以查看哪些具体的组合出现在Islandscape中。从这个意义上讲，我们建议从研究之初就将该岛视为岛景，然后说明该岛景是如何构成的，然后以组合形式描述部分稳定时刻。岛屿研究中已经存在的-scape和组合思想的组合，可以解决全球和本地之间的紧张关系，而可以查看哪些具体的组合出现在Islandscape中。从这个意义上讲，我们建议从研究之初就将该岛视为岛景，然后说明该岛景是如何构成的，然后以组合形式描述部分稳定时刻。