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The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies - A World of Islands (Paperback)
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The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies - A World of Islands (Paperback)
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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.
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