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Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean 世界的不同:荷属加勒比的岛屿身份和殖民地结构

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.401

Jessica Vance Roitman, Wouter Veenendaal

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1 Do you believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, epistemic plurality and colonial legacy 你相信拉姆·塞图吗?亚当之桥，认知多元化和殖民遗产

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.405

A. Chatterjee

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Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature 蚕食天堂:苏珊娜·卡萨伊尔对旅游文学的生态女性主义批评

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.382

Emily Eyestone

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Extreme weather, climate variability, and childhood: A historical analogue from the Orkney Islands (1903–1919) 极端天气、气候变化与童年:奥克尼群岛的历史模拟(1903-1919)

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.385

A. Foley

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Commodification or the right to the island: The struggle against the construction of a hotel in La Tejita (Tenerife) 商品化或对岛屿的权利:反对在特内里费岛拉特希塔建造酒店的斗争

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.386

Fernando Sabaté-Bel, Alejandro Armas-Díaz

引用次数: 2

The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands 新兴岛屿旅游目的地的破坏性交通基础设施发展潜力:法罗群岛研究项目

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.387

Carlos Chan Santana, Saverio Francesco Bertolucci, Cecilie Bremer Sloth, Alberte Egholm, Marc Ingvorsen

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Legal socialization, police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations 三个加勒比国家的法律社会化、警察和犯罪

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.407

Hyunjung Cheon, Kayla R. Freemon, C. Katz

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Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi Island communities 马尔代夫对灾害的脆弱性:Maamigili和Fenfushi岛屿社区

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.408

Glorianne Borg Axisa, R. Borg, Mohamed Ibrahim, Fathimath Nistharan

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Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: Police and public perceptions of enforcement of health protocols in the Fiji Islands 监管COVID-19大流行:斐济群岛警察和公众对卫生协议执行情况的看法

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.410

A. Chand, Maureen Karan, Pariniappa Goundar, N. Reddy

{"title":"Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: Police and public perceptions of enforcement of health protocols in the Fiji Islands","authors":"A. Chand, Maureen Karan, Pariniappa Goundar, N. Reddy","doi":"10.24043/isj.410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.410","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health security concern (World Health Organization, 2020), and governments have called upon police agencies to assist control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This study looks at the new roles performed by police agencies in the context of the Fiji Islands. This study addresses two main research questions. Firstly, what are the issues and challenges faced by police officers when carrying out their COVID-19 duties? Secondly, what is the public perceptions of police officers’ effectiveness in enforcing COVID-19 health protocols? This study has utilized a mixed-method approach based on qualitative interviews with police officers and a quantitative survey of the public. The police officers' interviews reveal that police performed new health duties and ground-level police faced several challenges. The public survey findings reveal that most people were happy with police performance. We conclude by discussing the policy implications of our findings on police practice and the agenda for future comparative research in small island countries so that SIDs can learn from each other.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68954462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico 岛屿领土上的精英定居点:通往新喀里多尼亚和波多黎各具有约束力的政治地位公投的道路

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.398

Alberto M. Burgos-Rivera

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