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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, as well as 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 - while the last chapter offers timely
reflections upon island geographies' past and future, penned by the
first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.
By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are
better able to understand the central importance of movements,
rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This
innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing
multidisciplinary field that includes, among other things, studies
on smart cities, infrastructures and networks; mobile technologies
for automated highways or locative media; mobility justice and
rights to stay or enter or reside. These activities, cadences and
changing attachments to place have profound effects-first upon how
we conduct or govern ourselves and each other via many social
institutions, and second upon how we constitute the spaces in and
through which our lives are experienced. This scholarship also has
clear connections to numerous aspects of social and spatial policy
and planning.
By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are
better able to understand the central importance of movements,
rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This
innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing
multidisciplinary field that includes, among other things, studies
on smart cities, infrastructures and networks; mobile technologies
for automated highways or locative media; mobility justice and
rights to stay or enter or reside. These activities, cadences and
changing attachments to place have profound effects-first upon how
we conduct or govern ourselves and each other via many social
institutions, and second upon how we constitute the spaces in and
through which our lives are experienced. This scholarship also has
clear connections to numerous aspects of social and spatial policy
and planning.
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, as well as 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 - while the last chapter offers timely
reflections upon island geographies' past and future, penned by the
first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.
Rounding off the "Rethinking the Island" series, this book shares
critical and creative insights on the methodologies and associated
practices, protocols, and techniques used by those in island
studies and allied fields. It explores why and how islands serve
powerful analytical ends. Authored by three scholars who work in
and across geography, sociology, and literary studies and
incorporating conversations with colleagues from around the world,
the work considers significant, interdisciplinary questions shaping
the field, including on belonging, boundedness, decolonization,
governance, indigeneity, migration, sustainability, and the
consequences of climate change. In the process, the authors model
what it means to think about and rethink island and archipelagic
methodologies and point to emergent innovations in the field.
At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of
terra-land-a surface of fixed points with stable features that can
be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many
spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans
in which 'places' are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be
fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by
transcending boundaries? This book examines the politics of these
spaces to shed light on the challenges of our increasingly dynamic
world. Through a focus on the planet's elements, environments, and
edges, the contributors to Territory beyond Terra extend our
understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of
contemporary politics.
Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a
notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably
and universally connected. Enrol them in diverse strategies and
tactics that create varied anatomo-politics of the body and
biopolitics of the population. Enlist those three things as the
"handmaidens" of the government of individuals and groups, places
and spaces, and comings and goings. Focus some effort on the
periodical press, and on producing and disseminating narratives,
discourses, and practices that relate specifically to health and
well-being. Deploy those texts and shape those contexts in ways
that affect flesh and bone, psychology and social conduct, and the
spatial organization and relational dynamics of dwellings and
streets, settlements and regions, and states and empires. Stretch
these activities over the Anglophone world-from the epicentres of
the United Kingdom and the United States to Australia or Canada,
New Zealand or India-and extend their reach over the whole of the
long nineteenth century. Such are the subjects of this work, in
which Elaine Stratford draws from governmentality, the
geohumanities, and geocriticism to converse with an extensive
archive that profoundly shaped our engagements with home, nature,
and the feminine ideal, deeply influenced our collective capacity
to flourish, and powerfully constituted diverse geographies of the
interior and of empire that still affect us.
Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a
notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably
and universally connected. Enrol them in diverse strategies and
tactics that create varied anatomo-politics of the body and
biopolitics of the population. Enlist those three things as the
"handmaidens" of the government of individuals and groups, places
and spaces, and comings and goings. Focus some effort on the
periodical press, and on producing and disseminating narratives,
discourses, and practices that relate specifically to health and
well-being. Deploy those texts and shape those contexts in ways
that affect flesh and bone, psychology and social conduct, and the
spatial organization and relational dynamics of dwellings and
streets, settlements and regions, and states and empires. Stretch
these activities over the Anglophone world-from the epicentres of
the United Kingdom and the United States to Australia or Canada,
New Zealand or India-and extend their reach over the whole of the
long nineteenth century. Such are the subjects of this work, in
which Elaine Stratford draws from governmentality, the
geohumanities, and geocriticism to converse with an extensive
archive that profoundly shaped our engagements with home, nature,
and the feminine ideal, deeply influenced our collective capacity
to flourish, and powerfully constituted diverse geographies of the
interior and of empire that still affect us.
At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of
terra-land-a surface of fixed points with stable features that can
be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many
spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans
in which 'places' are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be
fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by
transcending boundaries? This book examines the politics of these
spaces to shed light on the challenges of our increasingly dynamic
world. Through a focus on the planet's elements, environments, and
edges, the contributors to Territory beyond Terra extend our
understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of
contemporary politics.
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