Author : Ilan Kelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Islands
ISBN : 1138014605
Island Studies
Ilan Kelman
Island Studies
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An Introduction to Island Studies
James Randall
Author : James Randall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786615473
An Introduction to Island Studies by James Randall Pdf
Island Studies can be deceptively challenging and rewarding for an undergraduate student. Islands can be many things: nations, tourist destinations, quarantine stations, billionaire baubles, metaphors. The study of islands offers a way to take this 'bewildering variety' and to use it as a lens and a tool to better understand our own world of islands. An Introduction to Island Studies is an approachable look at this interdisciplinary field - from the islands as biodiversity hotspots, their settlement, human migration and occupation through to the place of islands in the popular imagination. Featuring geopolitical, social and economic frameworks, James Randall gives a bottom-up guide to this most modern area of study. From the geological analysis of island formation to the metaphorical use of islands in culture and literature, the growing field of island studies is truly interdisciplinary. This new introduction gives readers from many disciplines the local, global, and regional perspectives that unlock the promise of island studies as a way to see the world. From the struggles and concerns of the Anthropocene—climate change, vulnerability and resilience, sustainable development, through to policy making and local environments—island studies has the potential to change the debate.
The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies
Godfrey Baldacchino
Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317027249
The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf
From tourist paradises to immigrant detention camps, from offshore finance centres to strategic military bases, islands offer distinct identities and spaces in an increasingly homogenous and placeless world. The study of islands is important, for its own sake and on its own terms. But so is the notion that the island is a laboratory, a place for developing and testing ideas, and from which lessons can be learned and applied elsewhere. The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies is a global, research-based and pluri-disciplinary overview of the study of islands. Its chapters deal with the contribution of islands to literature, social science and natural science, as well as other applied areas of inquiry. The collated expertise of interdisciplinary and international scholars offers unique insights: individual chapters dwell on geomorphology, zoology and evolutionary biology; the history, sociology, economics and politics of island communities; tourism, wellbeing and migration; as well as island branding, resilience and ‘commoning’. The text also offers pioneering forays into the study of islands that are cities, along rivers or artificial constructions. This insightful Handbook will appeal to geographers, environmentalists, sociologists, political scientists and, one hopes, some of the 600 million or so people who live on islands or are interested in the rich dynamics of islands and island life.
The Challenges of Island Studies
Ayano Ginoza
Author : Ayano Ginoza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811562884
The Challenges of Island Studies by Ayano Ginoza Pdf
This book places islanders’ struggles and knowledge at the forefront of island studies. Written by experts from diverse fields and locations, it covers a wide range of topics, from the history of island studies to critical ocean studies. In remapping the field of island studies from Okinawa, an emerging hub of community-based knowledge and interdisciplinary collaboration between leading critics and theorists in geography, linguistics, tourism, literature, international relations, and peace studies reveals the challenges for the future of island studies. The book consists of two parts: the first offers a collection of individual contributions that demonstrate the vital role that the field’s interdisciplinarity can play in creating bridges between the political and social issues islanders and the islands face and the disciplines involved. The second part provides a cross-disciplinary discussion between the authors and scholars of island studies in Okinawa, including local experts, and suggests new ways to think about the future of island studies that are intricately linked to islanders’ agency, preservation of languages and heritage, and the security of the islands. As such, the book directly addresses the current state of the field as well as with its future.
Anthropocene Islands
Jonathan Pugh,David Chandler
Author : Jonathan Pugh,David Chandler
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781914386015
Anthropocene Islands by Jonathan Pugh,David Chandler Pdf
'A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University ‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa ‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg ‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster University The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.
Gender and Island Communities
Firouz Gaini,Helene Pristed Nielsen
Author : Firouz Gaini,Helene Pristed Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429558733
Gender and Island Communities by Firouz Gaini,Helene Pristed Nielsen Pdf
This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis. Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on islands as objects of study rather than as contexts for exploring gender relations and local gendered developments. Taking Karides’ ‘Island feminism’ as a starting point and drawing from the wider literature on island studies as well as gender and place, this book bridges this gap by exploring gender, gender relations, affect and politics in various island settings spanning a great variety of global locations, from the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north to Tasmania in south. Insights on recent developments and gendered contestations in these locations provide rich food for thought on the intricate links between gender and place in a local/global world. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of gender and feminist studies, cultural studies, Island studies, anthropology, and more broadly to sociology, geography, diversity and social justice studies, global democracy, and international relations.
A World of Islands
Godfrey Baldacchino
Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Institute of Island Studies Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X030256155
A World of Islands by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf
Island Geographies
Elaine Stratford
Author : Elaine Stratford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317414445
Island Geographies by Elaine Stratford Pdf
Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental – a conversation among these authors and the editor – while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies’ past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.
Bridging Islands
Godfrey Baldacchino
Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Acorn Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bridges
ISBN : NWU:35556038313953
Bridging Islands by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf
An island is a piece of land surrounded by water. But: what happens when bridges, causeways, tunnels- "fixed links"- irrevocably connect islands to mainlands? Is insularity, and its way of life, threatened? Or is it saved by virtue of a stronger integration with the world at large? Bridging Islands is a critical, interdisciplinary scoreboard of the pros and cons of bridging islands to mainlands. Internationally recognized scholars review the assorted socio-cultural, economic and political impacts of fixed links on small island communities. Included are chapters on Prince Edward Island's Confederation Bridge (celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2007), Cape Breton's Canso Causeway, islands in Quebec and Newfoundland, the Florida Keys, Ireland, France, Scotland, Sweden, and Singapore.
Extreme Heritage Management
Godfrey Baldacchino
Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857452603
Extreme Heritage Management by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf
Conflicting and competing claims over the actual and imagined use of land and seascapes are exacerbated on islands with high population density. The management of culture and heritage is particularly tested in island environments where space is finite and the population struggles to preserve cultural and natural assets in the face of the demands of the construction industry, immigration, high tourism and capital investment. Drawn from extreme island scenarios, the ten case studies in this volume review practices and policies for effective heritage management and offer rich descriptive and analytic material about land-use conflict. In addition, they point to interesting, new directions in which research, public policy and heritage management intersect.
Black Islanders
Jim Hornby,University of Prince Edward Island. Institute of Island Studies
Author : Jim Hornby,University of Prince Edward Island. Institute of Island Studies
Publisher : Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Institute of Island Studies
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028442740
Black Islanders by Jim Hornby,University of Prince Edward Island. Institute of Island Studies Pdf
My Island's the House I Sleep in at Night
Laurie Brinklow
Author : Laurie Brinklow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1877010979
My Island's the House I Sleep in at Night by Laurie Brinklow Pdf
. Drawn from interviews with artists from Newfoundland and Tasmania, these poems capture what it means to be an islander. Brinklow weaves stories and images with her own poetic imaginings.
The Cove Journal
JoDee Samuelson
Author : JoDee Samuelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988692202
The Cove Journal by JoDee Samuelson Pdf
In eight years of writing her monthly column for PEI's entertainment newspaper, the Buzz, artist JoDee Samuelson continues to capture the soft edges of rural life on the peaceful south shore of Prince Edward Island. The passing of the seasons, the growing of gardens, the friendship of neighbours, and the earthly pleasures of life are all presented with the enduring backdrop of "the shore." JoDee's expressive illustrations are the perfect touch.
Proceedings of the Critical Island Studies 2023 Conference (CISC 2023)
Ramayda Akmal,Iping Liang,Vincenz Serrano,Wulan Tri Astuti,Raymon D. Ritumban,Ari Bagus Panuntun
Author : Ramayda Akmal,Iping Liang,Vincenz Serrano,Wulan Tri Astuti,Raymon D. Ritumban,Ari Bagus Panuntun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9782384761869
Proceedings of the Critical Island Studies 2023 Conference (CISC 2023) by Ramayda Akmal,Iping Liang,Vincenz Serrano,Wulan Tri Astuti,Raymon D. Ritumban,Ari Bagus Panuntun Pdf
This is an open access book. The Critical Island Studies Consortium (CIS) was born in 2019 in Manila with the theme, “Critical Island Studies: The Islandic Archipelago, and Oceanic.” The CIS consortium aims at developing a new planetary perspective from which to invent an image of the environment and create a new sense of nature with which to seek environmental justice. This conference in Yogyakarta is composed of two related yet autonomous sections; one is hosted by Universitas Sanata Dharma (USD) and the other by Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). With USD and UGM taking the lead, CIS 2023 continues to carve out the vision of a new, more sustainable future for our planet.
China's Island Frontier
Ronald G. Knapp
Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824880040
China's Island Frontier by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf
Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China.
