The Routledge international handbook of island studies : a world of islands / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino

Contributor(s):

Baldacchino Godfrey [editor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge international handbooksRoutledge, 2018Description: xxxix, 459 pages; illustrations; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

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LOC classification:

GB471 ROU

Contents:

Part I Foundations of Islands and Island Life 1. Definitions and Typologies 2. Locations and Classifications 3. Origins and Environments 4. Evolution 5. Flora 6. Fauna Part II The Human World Of Islands 7. History and Colonisation 8. Governance 9. Economics and Development 10. Tourism 11. Migration 12. Health and Wellbeing 13. Literature and The Literary Gaze 14. Cities and Urbanisation 15. Rivers and Estuaries 16. Society and Community 17. Resilience and Sustainability 18. Brands and Branding 19. Commoning and Alternative Development 20. Artificial Islands and Islophilia 21. Futures: Green and Blue

Summary: "From tourist paradises to immigrant detention camps, from offshore finance centres to strategic military bases, islands offer distinct identities and spaces in an increasingly homogeneous 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. This 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."--Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliography and index

"From tourist paradises to immigrant detention camps, from offshore finance centres to strategic military bases, islands offer distinct identities and spaces in an increasingly homogeneous 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. This 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."--Provided by publisher

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