The paper introduces a special issue dedicated to cross-disciplinary research on insular condition and insularity. Situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical studies, it explores the intriguing topic of “Island-ness” by placing emphasis on how physical, legal, and imaginative remoteness articulates a variety of geographical connections. These reflect several issues, such as territorial (and maritime) localisation, insular ontology, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries. The special issue delivers both a synthetic view of these questions and opens up further perspectives for reflection. The papers examine how geographical connections trigger different legal, as well as constitutional, frameworks suitable for geographically distant islands, which, evidently, depend on how remote these islands actually are. The contributions survey various topics and adopt different approaches in order to ascertain how geographical connections and remoteness intertwine. Beyond this richness of inputs, the essays reveal some common features of islands and remoteness as objects of geographical and legal representation. Besides organising society, the law arranges geographical connections so as to act as a bridge linking the reality of remoteness to an imagined alternative able of securing the governance of the above-mentioned remote societal contexts.

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地理联系：法律、岛屿和偏远

该论文介绍了一个专刊，致力于对岛屿状况和岛屿性进行跨学科研究。它位于法律和地理研究的十字路口，通过强调物理、法律和想象中的偏远如何表达各种地理联系来探索“岛屿性”这个有趣的话题。这些反映了几个问题，例如领土（和海洋）本地化、岛屿本体论、殖民和后殖民想象。特刊提供了对这些问题的综合观点，并为反思开辟了进一步的视角。这些论文研究了地理联系如何触发适用于地理上遥远岛屿的不同法律和宪法框架，这显然取决于这些岛屿的实际距离。这些贡献调查了各种主题并采用了不同的方法，以确定地理联系和偏远是如何交织在一起的。除了这些丰富的投入之外，这些文章还揭示了岛屿和偏远地区作为地理和法律代表对象的一些共同特征。除了组织社会之外，法律还安排了地理联系，以充当桥梁，将偏远的现实与能够确保上述偏远社会环境治理的想象替代方案联系起来。