Future images of contemporary Oki Islands youth

Gaini, Firouz

doi:10.1080/1683478x.2019.1555787

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“…My own research also found similarities with that of the ISHES (2017) and Gaini (2019) research. One teacher who had only quite recently arrived in Ama-cho from a place near Tokyo remarked that ‘in Saitama, there are lots of people living alone who do not know their neighbours, but here in Ama-cho people know everybody and we especially look out for the elderly’.…”

Section: Findings and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…In Ama-cho, the islanders feel a belonging that is difficult to substitute for a life immersed in companies in cities. Gaini (2019) also found that Ama-cho students expressed less future-pessimism than many young people elsewhere in the country. Their community inspires attempts to rekindle confidence in the future.…”

Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In 2015, Firouz Gaini carried out research in Ama-cho on the realities and dreams of Oki-Dozen High School students (Gaini, 2019). The results were positive for the future well-being of Ama-cho.…”

Section: Journal Of Education For Sustainablementioning

confidence: 99%

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Revitalizing an Island Community: Education for Sustainable Living in Nakanoshima, Oki Islands, Japan

Bedford

2023

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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Japan is facing a problem of depopulation of rural and island communities. This research focuses on the island of Nakanoshima (Ama-cho), which has dramatically declined in population in the past 70 years. In 2007, the High School faced the threat of closure due to declining numbers, and were it to close would have further hastened the decline of the island. At that time, radical reforms were made by the local government and subsequently the Miryokuka project was created to save the school and make it into a centre of education to promote sustainable living in Ama-cho. During a visit to the island, observations and semi-structured interviews were carried out with different stakeholders. This focussed on the ways educational interventions have contributed to reversing population decline and rejuvenating the island. The research demonstrated the power of the school’s transformative place-based pedagogy to foster sustainable living in Ama-cho.

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Revitalizing an Island Community: Education for Sustainable Living in Nakanoshima, Oki Islands, Japan

Bedford

2023

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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“…Various studies have emerged in the past decade within the interdisciplinary field of island studies which take account of what has been termed the "relational turn" (Pugh, 2016;Grydehøj, 2020). Some of these focus on islands as practice and "doing islandness" in bringing about a sense of place (Vannini & Taggart, 2013), through mobilities (Vannini, 2011a;2011b), immigration (Randall et al, 2014) and young people's future orientations (Alexander, 2015;Gaini, 2017;2019). Vannini and Taggart (2013, p. 228) suggest that islandness is "an outcome of what islanders do, and in particular how islanders move."…”

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Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions

Hayfield¹,

Nielsen²

2022

ISJ

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This paper concerns belonging in islands. Place-belonging conjures images of feeling at home somewhere, in our case islands. Given the emotionality of belonging, we explore island belonging through emotions. More specifically, we apply the concept of the aquapelago to island belonging and refer to this as aquapelagic belonging. Bringing in emotions, embodied perceptions and mobility, we discuss how these are assembled in island-sea relations to form aquapelagic belonging. In doing so, we draw on qualitative data from fieldwork undertaken in locations where proximity to the sea and access to seaborne mobility is paramount. Our findings demonstrate how certain emotional dispositions and mobility practices emerge in processes of aquapelagic belonging, indicating that mobility is intricately entangled with island belonging. We propose that the interconnected nature of land and sea spaces co-produce emotions of belonging in island spaces. We therefore argue that the concept of aquapelagic belonging lends useful insight to understand what is particular about island belonging. Furthermore, we suggest that attention to mobility, which in this context means navigating land/sea environments, is key to understanding aquapelagic belonging. We conclude that to grasp island belonging, the notion of the aquapelago is relevant and assists in understanding the totality of island relations.

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Community resourcefulness and partnerships in rural tourism

Mccormick

Funck

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Future images of contemporary Oki Islands youth

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Revitalizing an Island Community: Education for Sustainable Living in Nakanoshima, Oki Islands, Japan

Revitalizing an Island Community: Education for Sustainable Living in Nakanoshima, Oki Islands, Japan

Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions

Community resourcefulness and partnerships in rural tourism

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