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Movement from emerging economies to small island states: motivations of Nigerian educational tourists in North Cyprus 从新兴经济体到小岛屿国家的流动:尼日利亚教育游客在北塞浦路斯的动机

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.87

Cahit Ezel, H. Arasli

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引用次数: 2

Shared routes of mammalian kinship: Race and migration in Long Island whaling diasporas 哺乳动物亲缘关系的共同路线:长岛捕鲸侨民的种族和迁移

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.160

Ayasha Guerin

引用次数: 3

Islands and the rise of correlational epistemology in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the trope of the ‘canary in the coalmine’ 岛屿与人类世相关认识论的兴起——对“煤矿里的金丝雀”比喻的再思考

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.119

D. Chandler, J. Pugh

引用次数: 11

Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean 群岛民族志笔记：印度洋上的船只、海洋和相关岛屿

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.147

Nidhi Mahajan

引用次数: 6

Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach 中国里下河水陆交汇处的低地岛屿：边界方法

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.158

Dongxue Lei

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引用次数: 3

Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire 玩人类世:棋盘游戏的岛屿，自然和帝国的想象

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.165

Hannah Fair

{"title":"Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire","authors":"Hannah Fair","doi":"10.24043/isj.165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.165","url":null,"abstract":"The figure of the island as a metonym for the planet is central to many allegories of the Anthropocene. These allegories build upon pre-existing discourses of islands as remote, vulnerable, and timeless, and often portray contemporary island nations as helpless, doomed, and disposable. This article focuses on one allegorical terrain that has received limited discursive and cultural analysis: analogue board games. Board game representations of islands are relevant to island studies both due to the popularity of island themes and because of the resonances between common island imaginaries and the form of board game play itself. Looking at three explicitly island-themed board games (Taluva, Vanuatu, and Spirit Island), I explore the extent to which these games reiterate or contest discourses of islands as sites of ahistorical insularity and alterity. I investigate the presence and absence of islanders in these fictional landscapes, the relationship between these ludic cartographies and imaginaries of ecological collapse and environmental intervention, and the articulations of nature, humanity, and empire that are literally at play. Particularly in the case of Spirit Island, these board game representations reflect the potential for the figure of the island to be reconfigured in order to imagine the Anthropocene otherwise.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68944893","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}

引用次数: 1

Multiple Avalons: Place naming practices and a mythical Arthurian island 多重阿瓦隆:地名惯例和神话中的亚瑟王岛

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.174

P. Hayward

{"title":"Multiple Avalons: Place naming practices and a mythical Arthurian island","authors":"P. Hayward","doi":"10.24043/isj.174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.174","url":null,"abstract":"The island of Avalon features in British Arthurian legendry. While its very existence — let alone any actual location it may have had — is contentious, it is now commonly associated with Glastonbury, in the English county of Somerset. Illustrating its enduring appeal, Avalon’s name has also been affixed to a number of international locations over the last 500 years. There have been various motivations for such place naming, including religious beliefs, personal associations, and various types of boosterism, all attempting to imbue New World locales with Old World mystique through nomenclative association. This article surveys the deployment of the concept of Avalon through anglophonic colonial and post-colonial place naming and examines the varying ways in which the name has been applied in different national and local contexts. Its survey reveals direct references to the legendary isle in place naming between the 17th and early 20th centuries and, generally, more weakly associative and/or arbitrary connections over the last century. The study contributes to the expansion of island studies by analysing how a mythical island has been projected onto various non-island locations, and contributes to the development of toponymic studies by examining multiple uses of a single place name.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68945638","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}

引用次数: 0

Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia 法属波利尼西亚原始珊瑚礁的海洋生物多样性

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.150

D. Lecchini, F. Bertucci, Lily G. Fogg, Camille Gache, Pascal Ung, Yann Lacube, C. Berthe, V. Waqalevu, Alain Siu, T. Bambridge

{"title":"Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia","authors":"D. Lecchini, F. Bertucci, Lily G. Fogg, Camille Gache, Pascal Ung, Yann Lacube, C. Berthe, V. Waqalevu, Alain Siu, T. Bambridge","doi":"10.24043/ISJ.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/ISJ.150","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the natural state of coral reefs is paramount to evaluate the response of these ecosystems to local and global human impacts as well as management and conservation strategies. In French Polynesia, some islands are still pristine or uninhabited, such as Tupai atoll. Tupai has been uninhabited, with access to the lagoon prohibited since 2010. However, fishers from nearby islands often take from the outer reef slope at Tupai. Our marine biodiversity survey (coral, macro-invertebrates, and fish) conducted in 2019 highlighted a low density of commercial fish species and top-predators on the outer slope in comparison to the lagoon, where the top-predators represented 16% (of the density) of functional trophic groups. Our surveys also showed a high living coral cover (46%) on the outer slope of Tupai, perhaps due to the absence of both touristic sub-aquatic activities and local pollution from private and commercial activities. Overall, this initial scientific assessment of Tupai has granted an understanding of the spatial patterns of coral, macro-invertebrates, and fish assemblages in the absence of human impacts (i.e., in the lagoon), representing an ecological baseline that could inform conservation management strategies to ensure the preservation of coral reef ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68944381","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}

引用次数: 2

Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu 超越脆弱性/复原力的二分法：对瓦努阿图埃马气候危机的看法和应对措施

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.151

S. Ruehr

{"title":"Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu","authors":"S. Ruehr","doi":"10.24043/ISJ.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/ISJ.151","url":null,"abstract":"In Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation, the effects of climate change pose new challenges for low-lying coastal communities. This study explores how one village on Emau, an island offshore of capital island Efate, has developed several overlapping strategies to manage climate change impacts, including drought and sea level rise. Informants reveal their perceptions of changing environmental baselines and how socio-economic processes, including population growth, cultural loss, and limited access to cash incomes, have shaped the community’s response. Informants describe four climate adaptation strategies: 1) expanding access to cash income through seasonal or urban labor migration; 2) leveraging international expertise and funding to meet their goals; 3) developing hybrid forms of traditional practices and contemporary ideology to preserve environmental knowledge; and 4) performing physical and emotional labor to preserve and remain on their land. These strategies span oceans and cross international borders, refuting narratives of islands’ being ‘isolated’ from the rest of the world and passive ‘victims’ of climate change. Contextualizing perceptions of and responses to environmental change provides critical nuance to the resilience/vulnerability framework, which alone obscures ongoing political, social and economic processes on islands.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68944488","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}

引用次数: 3

Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia) 河流的复杂性:岛屿性、社会空间感知和修改——以下里士满河(东澳大利亚)为例

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/ISJ.141

C. Fleury, P. Hayward

{"title":"Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia)","authors":"C. Fleury, P. Hayward","doi":"10.24043/ISJ.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/ISJ.141","url":null,"abstract":"In its initial incarnation, island studies regarded islands as highly distinct entities that justified a relatively closed discipline. This orientation was first widened by address to issues such as the linkage of (pre-existent) islands to adjacent areas and, over the last decade, has been further modified by consideration of island-like areas. The latter has led to an increasing acknowledgement that, in some contexts, at least, islands form components of complex aquatic and terrestrial systems in which islandness is a less distinctive attribute than in the case of archetypal (usually marine) islands. While neglected by island studies, river systems that include islands, peninsulas and/or engineered waterfront developments are significant for problematising the distinctiveness of islands and thereby merit attention. This article sets out to map some of the complexities around islands and rivers with specific regard to the Richmond River in northern New South Wales, Australia. We profile this river since its lower reaches feature a range of natural and artificial island and island-like features, including the engineered area known as Ballina Island. We develop our study with regard to both Indigenous perceptions of the riverine space and disruptions, interventions and innovations resulting from European settlement in the region. As such, the article attempts to progress island studies’ research on riverine environments, to problematise the notion of discrete islands/islandness in such contexts and to prompt greater disciplinary reflection on the issues arising from such scrutiny.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68944522","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}

引用次数: 3