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Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Ping Su,Shoujuan Huang
Jean Rhys’s best-known novel Wide Sargasso Sea, writing back to Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre, is set in the exuberant natural world of the post-emancipation Caribbean. Despite its harsh depiction of cruelty, self-deception, and hypocrisy in the human world, the novel conveys a sympathetic impression of Caribbean society. The novel’s utopian/dystopian tension is centered on its imagining of
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Commodification or the right to the island: The struggle against the construction of a hotel in La Tejita (Tenerife) Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Fernando Sabaté-Bel,Alejandro Armas-Díaz
Tourism is an attractive means of economic growth for governments, private companies, and international organizations, especially in places on the periphery of world capitalism. This growth strategy goes hand in hand with the transformation of coastlines and their surrounding areas and the enclosure of common spaces. These trends are illustrated by ongoing processes in the Canary Islands. In the aftermath
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The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Carlos Chan Santana,Saverio Francesco Bertolucci,Cecilie Bremer Sloth,Alberte Egholm,Marc Ingvorsen
This qualitative research paper investigates the role of transport infrastructure for community and tourism development in emerging island destinations. The Faroe Islands, a trending tourism attraction, have lately become pioneers in subsea tunnel construction. Their innovative and avant-garde road system is replacing cross-sea ferry links and providing users with shorter travel times across the country
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Factors influencing the level of Social Responsibility of marine tourism companies and restaurants: The island of Fuerteventura Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Olga González-Morales,A. Santana Talavera,Francisco J. Calero García
This research aims to analyse the factors that affect the level of commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of marine tourism companies and restaurants. This commitment can be conditioned by economic reasons, stakeholder pressure, difficulties in implementing socio-environmentally responsible actions, and adaptation to change, as reflected in the innovative activities of companies, as well
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Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Emily Eyestone
This paper considers the ecofeminist geopoetics of Suzanne Césaire, developed over the course of seven essays that appeared in Martinican literary journal, Tropiques. Césaire deploys a ‘cannibalizing’ method aimed at subverting colonialist-utopian fantasies of the Antilles that cast them as inviting, penetrable spaces for European colonists and pleasure-seekers. I suggest that Césaire enlists the chaotic
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Sustainable tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-national island jurisdictions: The case of Tobago Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Preeya S. Mohan
Tourism has the potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed to by United Nations member states. For sustainable tourism to be successful, stakeholders must be involved in the process. The aim of this study is to consider the extent to which sustainable tourism contributes to achieving the SDGs and how tourism stakeholders understand and implement sustainable
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(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sarah Nimführ,Laura Otto
Official categorization systems classify some states, including island-states, as small. Malta, located in the Mediterranean Sea, is one of six European microstates and the European Union’s smallest member state. Smallness, however, refers to more than fixed geographic scales. The understanding of smallness developed in this article, in contrast, moves beyond geographic features and argues instead
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The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Eva-Maria Knoll
Relations within are quintessential in anthropological fieldwork — and in archipelagos in particular. The domestic sea is incorporated in the national consciousness connecting an archipelagic nation but distinguishing individual islands with a strong emphasis on the centre. The Maldivian archipelago displays this spatial organization of a socio-political and economic centre and a dependent island periphery
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Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao) Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sophie Fuggle
This article takes up the specific example of Poulo Condor (the Con Dao archipelago in Vietnam) as colonial prison island in order to examine this persistence of colonial island imaginaries built around the imagined project of the prison island well into the middle of the 20th century. Such imaginaries appear to run counter to dominant political discourse of the period along with ongoing media campaigns
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Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia) Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Christian Fleury,Philip Hayward
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 and, over the last decade, has been further modified by consideration of island-like areas. The latter has led to an increasing acknowledgement that
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80 “Minutes away, worlds apart”: The changing imagination of the Boston Harbor Islands Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Pavla Šimková
The Boston Harbor Islands are a historically urban archipelago. Since its founding in 1630, the city of Boston has embedded them firmly in its urban infrastructure. The islands have served as sources of wood and building stone, common pastures, sites of harbor defenses and lighthouses, and as ‘dumping grounds’ for materials, businesses, and institutions undesirable in the city proper. In the middle
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The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Solène Prince,Meng Qu,Simona Zollet
Many small island destinations owe their spatial character to their entanglements with stakeholders involved in the arts. Space is the dynamic outcome of complex relational processes, which makes it impossible to identify a straightforward development path — including when it comes to the arts and tourism. Using assemblage thinking, we scrutinize the different translocal processes influencing art-based
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Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sarah Nimführ,Greca N. Meloni
Scholars conducting research on and about islands face the challenge of countering the epistemic and methodological dominance of external perspectives on islands with an insular internal view, while also avoiding essentializing the island or reproducing Western perspectives. Islands have always been—and in some cases still are—confronted with a colonial gaze. Thus, to avoid producing hegemonic epistemology
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Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Martina Giuffrè
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 multi-sited ethnographic research to explore changes in Cape Verdean identity perception related to islandness and migration issues. The tension between
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The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Joan Carles Cirer-Costa
Ibiza, one of the largest and most celebrated tourist destinations in the world, sprang into life in the midst of the Great Depression. At that time, the tourist business was changing rapidly, and Ibiza’s entrepreneurs succeeded in detecting this and doing everything within their power to exploit it to the maximum, creating a tourist offer of international standing in just a few years. This article
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Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Kay Bergamini,Roberto Moris,Piroska Ángel,Daniela Zaviezo,Horacio Gilabert
The increase of population in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has fueled concerns within the community, given the uncertainty of its impacts. These concerns have driven a socio-political process that triggered the enactment of Law 21,070, which regulates the access and permanence of visitors in the territory as a way to cushion the pressure on different environmental, social, and infrastructure components
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Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Margaret A. Amundson
The ancient Talayotic Culture of Menorca can be best distinguished from that of Mallorca through peculiarities in its monumental architecture. This paper examines the social significance of Menorca’s megalithic structures, known as ‘taulas’. The construction of such visible monuments within the island’s cultural landscape at a time when foreign relations were increasing is significant in that it could
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97 Hospitality and exchange: Identity relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in Sardinia Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Gaspare Messana
Islands have frequently been invoked as a central topos of anthropological inquiry. The idea that islands and their inhabitants were isolated from the rest of the world led to them being treated as living laboratories, ripe for the investigation of a supposed cultural and biological purity. In contrast, the history of Sardinia shows how the island and its inhabitants have historically demonstrated
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Cainà: Islandscape and ‘islanderscope’ on screen Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Myriam Mereu,Daniele Gavelli
The establishment of Island Studies within the academe and the introduction of concepts such as ‘islandness’ and ‘islandscape’ have accompanied a general rethinking of the concept of insularity which encompasses the reflection over a cinematic representation of islands and islanders. The use of islands as cinematic landscapes and settings has reinforced cultural, mythical, and identity stereotypes
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Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Tuulia Lerkkanen,Matilda Hellman
The gambling business entails geo-economic opportunities for islands, especially in times of online gambling. However, it also involves risks like ill mental health, debt, and social problems. Furthermore, a heavy reliance on gambling revenues involves great moral dilemmas, especially when the gambling provision is operated within a not-for-profit public regime. This study concerns how these aspects
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Island narratives in the making of Japan: The Kojiki in geocultural context Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Henry Johnson
Shintō, the national religion of Japan, is grounded in the mythological narratives that are found in the 8th-Century chronicle, Kojiki 古事記 (712). Within this early source book of Japanese history, myth, and national origins, there are many accounts of islands (terrestrial and imaginary), which provide a foundation for comprehending the geographical cosmology (i.e., sacred space) of Japan’s territorial
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Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Delilah Griswold
In both media and policy, climate change is broadly framed as the promise of catastrophe for small island states such as Fiji. This framing is often used to attract adaptation investment in islands, the targets and directives of which are frequently market-based and oriented toward economic-growth development models. In Fiji, this takes the form of land tenure policy and efforts to attract investment
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The impeded archipelago of Corsica and Sardinia Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Marcel A. Farinelli
Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France) are two islands divided by a strait that is 13 km wide. Their inhabitants have had commercial and cultural links at least since the Bronze Age, facing similar historical processes such as colonization from mainland powers during Middle Ages and a problematic assimilation within the nation-states to which the islands are nowadays associated. Nevertheless, they are
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Measuring accessibility and island development in Ambon City Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Andiah Nurhaeny,Miming Miharja,Pradono,Puspita Dirgahayani
Island studies has thus far mostly focused on the limitations, isolation and marginality of island communities. However, recent research into island cities, or urban island studies, provides an analytic lens or research perspective that can be used to understand an island’s diversity and to encourage researchers to identify island characteristics that have an impact on the function of cities and population
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Embodying the Anthropocene: Embattled crustaceans, extractivism, and eco-tourism on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Philip Hayward
Christmas Island, in the north-eastern Indian Ocean, remained uninhabited until 1888 when British entrepreneurs established a phosphate mining operation that has continued to the present. Over the last 132 years, the island has experienced a series of impacts that typify the effects of extractivism globally. Acquired by Australia in 1958, the island has also been the site of a major immigration detention
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Electoral politics, party performance, and governance in Greenland: Parties, personalities, and cleavages in an autonomous subnational island jurisdiction Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Yi Zhang,Xinyuan Wei,Adam Grydehøj
Greenland is a strongly autonomous subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ) within the Kingdom of Denmark. This paper takes its point of departure in studies of politics in small island territories to ask to what extent Greenland matches findings from other small island states and SNIJs in terms of personalisation of politics, party performance, and political cleavages that do not follow left-right divides
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Critiquing ‘islandness’ as immunity to COVID-19: A case exploration of the Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique archipelago in the Caribbean region Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 John N. Telesford
Can mitigation of the spread and transmission of COVID-19 cases on islands, especially in the Caribbean, be attributed to the fact that they are just that: islands? As the corona crisis escalated in 2020, island authorities initially were able to keep COVID-19 cases low and mitigate their spread by implementing unprecedented actions, foremost among them border closures. However, as the realities of
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Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 David Lecchini,Frédéric Bertucci,Lily Fogg,Camille Gache,Pascal Ung,Yann Lacube,Cecile Berthe,Viliame Waqalevu,Tamatoa Bambridge
Understanding the natural state of coral reefs is paramount to evaluate the response of these ecosystems to local and global human impacts as well as management and conservation strategies. In French Polynesia, some islands are still pristine or uninhabited, such as Tupai atoll. Tupai has been uninhabited, with access to the lagoon prohibited since 2010. However, fishers from nearby islands often take
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Teehuteatuaonoa aka ‘Jenny’, the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Donald Patrick Albert
Teehuteatuaonoa (or ‘Jenny’ by her English nickname) was one of 12 Polynesian women reaching Pitcairn Island with the HMS Bounty mutineers in 1790. She was the most traveled of these women and the first to return to Tahiti after 29 years away. Her journey is chronicled with Google Earth using a screenshot and caption for each waypoint. The journey included 15 links totaling 24,090 km or 60% of the
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Future past I am a coolie-al…and I reside as an invisible island inside the ocean: Tidalectics, transoceanic crossings, coolitude and a Tamil identity Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Yaso Nadarajah
The politics of Tamil working-class identity in Malaysia continue to be articulated in subaltern terms, employing term such as ‘coolie’, which is elsewhere an archaic usage from colonial days. Yet the power of the coolie narrative appears salient, and the coolie odyssey is far from over. Drawing upon the author’s longitudinal work with a Tamil squatter settlement in the heart of the city of Kuala Lumpur
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Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Nidhi Mahajan
This paper explores a mobile anthropological method, or what I call an archipelagic ethnography. This archipelagic ethnography focuses on relationality to think through not only islandness and archipelagoes—land, ship, and sea—but also considers relationality as a starting point for examining connections across space. Based on over ten years of ethnographic research among dhow sailors in the Indian
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Nomadic identities, archipelagic movements, and island diasporas Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 May Joseph
Nomadic identities have shaped island histories and archipelagic communities since the emergence of the Westphalian state. In the era of postcoloniality, settler colonial realities, decolonial movements, and now climate change, the processes of forced and involuntary migrations as well as states of internal disaffiliation have accentuated the discontinuities between citizenship and island subjects
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'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Karl Agius,Francesco Sindico,Giulia Sajeva,Godfrey Baldacchino
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. While islanders have been quick to lock themselves down, this has had a tremendous impact on their connectivity and on tourism, which in many cases is their major economic sector. Yet, the association of islands with being
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Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Frida Hastrup,Nathalia Brichet
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of
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Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Valentina Marchia,Antonio Raschi
The understanding of destination image is a key point for tourism enterprises, local authorities, and policy makers. This study explores the case of Capraia, a small island located in Tuscany, to analyze how tourists (tourism demand) and local operators (tourism supply) create and communicate the island’s online image. This research quantitatively examines online communication on the two sides of the
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“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985 Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Tommy Tran
This paper examines the trajectory, ambitions, and practices involved in the official national and provincial planning for Jeju Island from 1963 to 1985 as it became reimagined as the so-called ‘Hawai'i of East Asia’. Jeju Island has been constantly built, left unfinished, demolished, and rebuilt at each wave and ebb in regional tourism trends. Jeju has thus become a complicated geography of heavy
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Vague and unworkable: The fuzziness of the archipelago as a concept and its unsuitability as model for a 21st century Palestinian nation Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Saba Bebawi,Christian Fleury,Philip Hayward
While it is frequently invoked, the archipelago is such a vague concept that its deployment in fields such as island studies is only productive when the contingency of its use is specified. In this article, we examine the concept itself and then consider the use of the archipelago as a metaphor and/or model for a future Palestinian state. The creation of the modern nation-state of Israel in Palestine
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Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sophie Ruehr
In Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, the effects of climate change pose new challenges for low-lying coastal communities. This study explores how one village on Emau, an island offshore of capital island Efate, has developed several overlapping strategies to manage climate change impacts, including drought and sea level rise. Informants reveal their perceptions of changing environmental baselines
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Multiple Avalons: Place naming practices and a mythical Arthurian island Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Philip Hayward
The island of Avalon features in British Arthurian legendry. While its very existence — let alone any actual location it may have had — is contentious, it is now commonly associated with Glastonbury, in the English county of Somerset. Illustrating its enduring appeal, Avalon’s name has also been affixed to a number of international locations over the last 500 years. There have been various motivations
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255 Island tourism carrying capacity in the UNESCO Site Laurisilva of Madeira Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Luís Mota,Mara Franco,Rossana Santos
The Laurisilva of Madeira is an important natural resource as well as a location for nature-based tourism and recreational activities. Despite UNESCO’s concerns and recommendations for assessing tourism capacity, the local population is perceived as overusing this resource; yet precisely how many tourists visit its most popular areas remains unknown. Tourism carrying capacity (TCC) was assessed on
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Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Edvard Johansson,Jouko Kinnunen,Juhana Peltonen
The present study analyzes the difference between the Åland Islands — an insular and peripheral part of Finland — and Finland as a whole in terms of firm local embeddedness. The analysis utilizes matched employee-employer longitudinal data for all businesses in Finland, including the Åland Islands, from 2006 to 2014. Local embeddedness is modelled both as tenure (the number of years a key stakeholder
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Optimisation of hybrid renewable energy systems on islands: A review Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 James Morales Lassalle,Dante Figueroa Martínez,Luis Vergara Fernández
Access to energy services is recognised as a fundamental aspect of economic and social development. This is particularly important for isolated areas, where electrical supply is not guaranteed. Because of their inherent geographic characteristics, islands are prominent cases of isolated areas that must import and burn fossil fuels, with environmental and economic consequences. In this context, Hybrid
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Shared routes of mammalian kinship: Race and migration in Long Island whaling diasporas Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ayasha Guerin
In this paper, I bring together the historiography of Indigenous shore whaling on Long Island with narratives of Black diaspora and whale studies to discuss shared routes of migration in the 17th-19th centuries and shared fates under colonial capitalism. Demonstrating how the extractive conquests of colonial settlers shaped the exploitative treatment of whales and the movements of social groups who
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Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sophie Fuggle
Since the establishment of slave plantations in French Guiana during the 17th century, the small island of Ilet la Mère, located 11 km from Cayenne, has functioned as site of confinement, refuge, and experimentation. These roles continued during and after the creation of France’s largest penal colony across the territory (1852–1953). This article identifies different phases of Ilet la Mère’s colonial
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Cultural role of sea turtles on Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Spatial and temporal contrast in the Pacific island region Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Rocío Álvarez-Varas, Héctor Barrios-Garrido, Iohandy Skamiotis-Gómez, Robert Petitpas
Sea turtles are deeply rooted in Pacific cultures. Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) has a complex societal and ecological history and marine resources have always been exploited; nevertheless, little is known about relationships between these resources and Rapanui islanders. This study aims to explore the historical and contemporary role of sea turtles on Rapa Nui, contrasting it with information from
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The sovereignty of the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories in the Brexit era Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Maria Mut Bosque
This paper focuses on an analysis of the sovereignty of two territorial entities that have unique relations with the United Kingdom: the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories (BOTs). Each of these entities includes very different territories, with different legal statuses and varying forms of self-administration and constitutional linkages with the UK. However, they also share similarities
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Triangular negotiations of island sovereignty: Indigenous and customary authorities - metropolitan states - local metropolitan authorities Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Cadey Korson, Sybille Poaouteta, Gerard Prinsen
The benefits of subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ) status are well detailed, but less attention has been given to the diffusion of economic, social and political benefits associated with these islands’ Islandian sovereignty among diverse island populations. The 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples indicated the international community’s formal recognition of Indigenous peoples’
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Mainland development policy in an autonomous subnational island jurisdiction: spatial development and economic dependence in Jeju, South Korea Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Seon-Pil Kim
This paper questions the appropriateness of island spatial development policies that are initiated and managed by mainland actors. Jeju is an autonomous subnational island jurisdiction (SNIJ) of South Korea. Over the past decades, Jeju has been developed as a tourist destination, international free city, and special economic zone as part of a spatial development policy led by South Korea’s central
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A global comparison of non-sovereign island territories: the search for ‘true equality’ Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Malcom Ferdinand, Gert Oostindie, Wouter Veenendaal
Abstract: For a great majority of former colonies, the outcome of decolonization was independence. Yet scattered across the globe, remnants of former colonial empires are still non-sovereign as part of larger metropolitan states. There is little drive for independence in these territories, virtually all of which are small island nations, also known as sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). Why
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Island textiles and clothing Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Godfrey Baldacchino
This special thematic section of Island Studies Journal explores textiles and clothing from an island studies perspective. While there are many examples of textiles and clothing associated with particular islands, an explicitly island studies approach to them has not been fully developed. Such an approach offers the scholar of textiles and clothing a comparative perspective on disparate examples, and
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Tourism, accommodation, and the regional economy in Indonesia’s West Papua Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Oscar Tiku,Tetsuo Shimizu
This study deals with the contribution of visitor expenditure on West Papua’s regional economy. It accomplishes three objectives: (1) to estimate the economic contribution of domestic and inbound visitor expenditure; (2) to measure the economic contribution of tourist spending at various accommodation classes; and (3) to describe the use of local commodities and labor in the regional accommodation
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Mourning Balliceaux: Towards a biography of a Caribbean island of death, grief and memory Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Niall Finneran,Christina Welch
This contribution considers how a small Caribbean island (Balliceaux, St Vincent and the Grenadines) holds up a mirror to the wider experiences of the Garifuna (‘Black Carib’) peoples who live on the neighbouring island of St Vincent, and in diasporic communities through the Americas. In the late-18th Century Balliceaux was the scene of a genocide orchestrated by the British colonial authorities on
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Imagining Ro: On the social life of islets and the politics of islandography Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Maria Hadjimichael,Costas M. Constantinou,Marinos Papaioakeim
This article engages the challenge of island history as caught in between national historiography and local life stories. It focuses on Ro, a Greek islet bordering Turkey that has been imagined and idealized as a space of national resistance and resilience. The article unpacks the grand national narrative that has been developed with regard to the heroic life story of a solitary woman living on the
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This shoal which is not one: Island studies, performance studies, and Africans who fly Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Rebecca Schneider
This essay explores variant stories surrounding the 1803 ‘Igbo Landing’ on St. Simons Island, Georgia, in which a group of enslaved Africans mutinied against their captors and ran aground upon a shoal. Following Tiffany Lethabo King and other scholars of Black feminist thought, the essay explores not only the littoral fact of shoals in seafaring but also the concept of shoaling for troubling historical
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Japanese public health nurses’ culturally sensitive disaster nursing for small island communities Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Miki Marutani,Shimpei Kodama,Nahoko Harada
Objective: To clarify the tacit knowledge of Japanese public-health nurses who administer culturally sensitive disaster nursing for small island communities. Design: Qualitative and inductive study. Sample: Eleven public-health nurses who provided disaster aid on one of six affected islands. Measurements: Semi-structured interviews, with qualitative analysis of data. Nursing actions that were based
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In spaces in between–From recollections to nostalgia: Discourses of bridge and island place Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jana Raadik Cottrell,Stuart P. Cottrell
Creation of a terrestrial connection to the mainland from Saaremaa Island (Estonia) has been discussed among politicians, scientists and the general public for the last decade. A fixed link has been a dream, hope, and fear in a situation where the island faces enormous societal changes in a rapidly developing young capitalist country. Islanders and visitors feel threats to their home place with or
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The back side of the postcard: Subversion of the island tourist gaze in the contemporary Mallorcan imaginary Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Mercè Picornell
This article analyses the manner in which certain artists and activists in Mallorca have recently generated a counter-image of the traditional postcard, which essentially symbolises the tourist gaze. Taking examples from diverse sources, such as artistic pieces, memes, protest posters and underground comics, I analyse the mechanisms used to subvert the conventional tourist perspective of the island
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Island as urban artifact/archipelago as urban model Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Brian McGrath
This essay introduces islands as urban artifact and archipelagos as urban model in order to deepen the rich interdisciplinary discussion between island and urban studies through the specificity of an architectural analysis of islands as built form and archipelagos as urban systems. Four examples are presented here to demonstrate the use of islands as “urban artifacts” and archipelagos as “urban models”
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Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Colin Flint
The Destroyers for Bases deal was signed on March 27, 1941, and transferred fifty aging US destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for 99-year leases of bases on the British controlled islands of Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia, the Bahamas, and one in British Guiana. The deal highlights how US strategic planners came to see the value of the islands because of their relationality
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1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape Island Studies Journal (IF 1.53) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sarah Nimführ, Laura Otto
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.