Island Geographies

Essays and Conversations
Herausgeber: Stratford, Elaine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, and 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-and the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies' past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138921726
• ISBN-10: 1138921726
• Artikelnr.: 43674468

Autorenporträt

Elaine Stratford works at the University of Tasmania, Australia, where she is a research professor at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, adjunct professorial fellow with the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, and an affiliate of the Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences in the School of Technology, Environment and Design.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
(Elaine Stratford)
2. The deep Pacific: island governance and seabed mineral development
(Katherine Genevieve Sammler)
3. Islands and lighthouses: a phenomenological geography of Cape Bruny,
Tasmania
(Thérèse Murray)
4. Too much sail for a small craft? Donor requirements, scale, and capacity
discourses in Kiribati
(Annika Dean, Donna Green, and Patrick D. Nunn)
5. An island feminism: convivial economics and the women's cooperatives of
Lesvos
(Marina Karides)
6. Nature and islands: rethinking the cultural heritage of New Zealand's
protected islands
(David Bade)
7. "The good garbage": waste-to-energy applications and issues in the
insular Caribbean
(Russell Fielding)
8. The returning terms of a small island culture: mimicry, inventiveness,
suspension
(Jon Pugh)
9. Conversations on human geography and island studies
(Elaine Stratford and the authors)
10. Retrospect and prospect
(Stephen Royle)