EU Accession from Within? An Introduction

Athanassiou, Phoebus; Shaelou, Stéphanie Laulhé

doi:10.1093/yel/yeu002

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“…In contrast, island territories that decided to retain a constitutional association with their colonial metropoles have seen an increasing administrative fragmentation in the last 15 years or soparticularly in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean. In 2007, the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, St Martin and St Barthélemy broke up into three separate overseas territories when the latter two smaller islands voted for separation of Guadeloupe (Athanassiou and Shaelou, 2014). In the British overseas territory named 'St Helena and Dependencies', the smaller islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha triggered a constitutional consultation process that saw them acquire equal status to St Helena.…”

Section: No Island Is An Island: Archipelagic Foundation and Fragmentationmentioning

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Inter‐island relations in Oceania's archipelagos: Identity and everyday politics

Prinsen

Mawyer

Cholymay

et al. 2021

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Oceania includes sovereign states as well as overseas territories of metropolitan powers. In both cases, contemporary geopolitical borders are legacies of colonialism. As in many (de)colonised places, materialisations of spatially anchored social imaginaries and practices of self and otherness, play a role in the everyday politics of Oceania's communities and states. Notably, cultural intimacies (Herzfeld, 2016) in this region are also shaped by tensions between islands in an archipelagic unit. Characterised by plural identities, Oceania's communities must navigate solidarities within the colonial borders of unitary sovereign states or non-sovereign island territories. Given this context, we ask whether spatially anchored identities within archipelagic contexts are politically engaged, playing a role in the politics of state (dis)cohesion across the region. This paper presents findings from 73 interviews across four pairs of Pacific islands -Wallis-Futuna, Tahiti-Mangareva, Rarotonga-Manihiki, Pohnpei-Chuukexploring how communities define their own identities and the identity of those on 'the other island'. We find both sides in agreement on six complementary and rather respectful identities. We therefore suggest that while political tensions and calls for secession in archipelagos are real, it is unlikely that identity politics at this point in time inflames political break ups.

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Section: No Island Is An Island: Archipelagic Foundation and Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inter‐island relations in Oceania's archipelagos: Identity and everyday politics

Prinsen

Mawyer

Cholymay

et al. 2021

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…Isolation has provided remarkable 28 Articles 349 and 355 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). See Kochenov (2011); Athanassiou and Shaelou (2014). 29 Perrot (2021).…”

Section: The Geographical Connection Again: Location Area and Environmentmentioning

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Geographical Connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness

Perrin

Nicolini

2020

Liverpool Law Rev

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The paper introduces a special issue dedicated to cross-disciplinary research on insular condition and insularity. Situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical studies, it explores the intriguing topic of "Island-ness" by placing emphasis on how physical, legal, and imaginative remoteness articulates a variety of geographical connections. These reflect several issues, such as territorial (and maritime) localisation, insular ontology, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries. The special issue delivers both a synthetic view of these questions and opens up further perspectives for reflection. The papers examine how geographical connections trigger different legal, as well as constitutional, frameworks suitable for geographically distant islands, which, evidently, depend on how remote these islands actually are. The contributions survey various topics and adopt different approaches in order to ascertain how geographical connections and remoteness intertwine. Beyond this richness of inputs, the essays reveal some common features of islands and remoteness as objects of geographical and legal representation. Besides organising society, the law arranges geographical connections so as to act as a bridge linking the reality of remoteness to an imagined alternative able of securing the governance of the abovementioned remote societal contexts. Keywords Island • Remoteness • Interdisciplinarity research • Isolation • EU cohesion policies • Greek archipelagos • British overseas territories • American territoriesThis article and the special issue pertain to the activities of the IEL (innovative education laboratory) GEOLawB, which is part of the research excellence project "Law, Changes and Technology" -Ministry of Education and carried out by the Law School of the University of Verona.

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“…Similarly, in a 2003 referendum, the 9,000 people of the French territory of Saint Barthélemy voted to separate from the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe, leading to a separation from the EU in 2012. ‘The second Member State territory to have ever become separated from the EU after Greenland’ (Athanassiou and Shaelou, : 37). Both cases are non‐self‐governing islands.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%