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Flows and boundaries: small island discourses and the challenge of sustainability, community and local environments

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posted on 2023-05-25, 22:45 authored by Elaine StratfordElaine Stratford
Islands (also islets, isles)‚ÄövÑvÆparadoxical spaces: absolute entities surrounded by water but not large enough to be a continent, territories, territorial; relational spaces‚ÄövÑvÆarchipelagos, (inter dependent, identifiable; relative spaces‚ÄövÑvÆbounded but porous; isolated, connected, colonized, postcolonial; redolent of the performative imaginary; vulnerable to linguistic, cultural, environmental change; robust and able to absorb and modify; placed in regions,(part of) nation states and global life; paradisiacal, utopian and dystopian, tourist meccas, ecological refugia; frames within which interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue can be constituted and deployed ...

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Publication title

Local Environment

Volume

8

Article number

5

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5

Pagination

495-499

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1354-9839

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