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Envisioning the Archipelago

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posted on 2023-05-17, 08:53 authored by Elaine StratfordElaine Stratford, Baldacchino, G, McMahon, E, Farbotko, C, Andrew HarwoodAndrew Harwood
Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relations of islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island and continent/mainland. What remains largely absent or silent are ways of being, knowing and doing—ontologies, epistemologies and methods—that illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed: as island and island. Therefore, this paper seeks to map out and justify a research agenda proposing a robust and comprehensive exploration of this third and comparatively neglected nexus of relations. In advancing these aims, the paper’s goal is to (re)inscribe the theoretical, metaphorical, real and empirical power and potential of the archipelago: of seas studded with islands; island chains; relations that may embrace equivalence, mutual relation and difference in signification.

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Publication title

Island Studies Journal

Volume

6

Pagination

113-130

ISSN

1715-2593

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

University of Prince Edward Island Institute of Island Studies

Place of publication

Canada

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Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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