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The city-island-state, wounding cascade, and multi-level vulnerability explored through the lens of Malta
Area ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 , DOI: 10.1111/area.12709
Geoff Main 1, 2 , John Schembri 3 , Janet Speake 4, 5 , Ritienne Gauci 3 , David Chester 6
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In this paper, we introduce the concept of “city-island-state” into a discussion of small highly urbanised islands. We place the “city” at the forefront of our analysis by bringing together the geographies of the “city” and “state,” together with a wider discussion of factors that may cause both the wounding of the city and an increase in the precariousness of the “island.” We apply this concept to the advanced city-island-state of Malta (Central Mediterranean), which is a densely populated, urbanised small island archipelago with about 500,000 inhabitants and operates as a single city with an urban core, suburbs, and a rural hinterland that is rapidly decreasing in size. This city-island-state is frequently considered as being “safe” from external geophysical, climatic, and anthropogenic wounding, but, in reality, Malta, as a city, an island, and an independent nation-state, is faced with multiple internal and external pressures that increase its precariousness and vulnerability to such externalities. Some of these are socio-economic, but others are environmental. We argue that the potential for wounding is particularly marked in Malta, that it is exacerbated by the contemporary globalised neoliberal world of flows and interconnectivities, and that this represents a multi-level wounding cascade: wounding the city wounds the island and, by extension, the state.

中文翻译:

通过马耳他的镜头探索城-岛-国家、伤害级联和多层次脆弱性

在本文中,我们将“城-岛-国”的概念引入到高度城市化的小岛的讨论中。我们将“城市”放在我们分析的最前沿,将“城市”和“国家”的地理结合在一起,同时更广泛地讨论可能导致城市受伤和不稳定因素增加的因素。小岛。” 我们将此概念应用于马耳他(地中海中部)的先进城岛国,该国是一个人口稠密、城市化的小岛群岛,拥有约 500,000 名居民,并作为具有城市核心、郊区和农村腹地的单一城市运作规模正在迅速缩小。这个城-岛-国家通常被认为是“安全”的,不受外部地球物理、气候和人为伤害,但实际上,马耳他作为一个城市、一个岛屿,作为一个独立的民族国家,面临着多重内部和外部压力,这增加了其对这种外部性的不稳定和脆弱性。其中一些是社会经济的,但另一些是环境的。我们认为,受伤的可能性在马耳他尤为明显,当代全球化的新自由主义世界的流动和相互联系加剧了这种情况,这代表了一个多层次的伤害级联:伤害城市会伤害岛屿,进而推而广之,状态。
更新日期:2021-03-20
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