Islands of relationality and resilience: The shifting stakes of the Anthropocene

Chandler, David; Pugh, Jonathan

doi:10.1111/area.12459

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“…While there are different streams within this turn-ranging from structuralist, to constructivist and post-structuralist approaches (Hong, 2017, p.22) -an outcome of this debate has been to challenge the dichotomies of island/mainland as well as land/sea (Stratford et al, 2011;qtd. in Grydehøj & Casagrande, 2020;Lee, Huang, & Grydehøj, 2017), as well as problematising and disrupting static tropes of isolation and peripherality (Chandler & Pugh, 2020). By emphasising islands' relationalities (Grydehøj, 2020), their interrelatedness came as much to the fore as the understanding of islands as being "mutually constituted and co-constructed" (Stratford et.…”

Section: Conceptualising Islandsmentioning

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1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

Nimführ¹,

Otto²

2020

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Even though the relational turn within Island Studies has long revoked the equation of islands with insularity, disconnectedness and backwardness, these ascriptions are still often deterministically attributed to islands, mainly by non-island scholars. Thereby these designations are not only reproduced, but connections, dynamics, different forms of embeddedness and entanglements remain overlooked. This paper has two main goals: (1) Adding to the relational turn in Island Studies by not only arguing for more inductive approaches to seriously engage with these situated and changing manifestations and meaningmakings of islands, and (2) by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malta, we introduce the concept of 'islandscape' (Broodbank 2000) to the Island Studies literature. Through the lens of islandscape, islands can be researched as nodal points of the local, national and global without reproducing 'islandism' while still acknowledging the importance of the island. The combination of-scape and assemblage-thinking which is already present within Island Studies makes it possible to address the tension between global and local and, rather, to look at which concrete, situated assemblages emerge within islandscape. In this sense, we propose to think of the island as islandscape from the very beginning of research, then to show how this islandscape is actually constituted and then to describe partial moments of stabilisation in terms of assemblages.

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Section: Conceptualising Islandsmentioning

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1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

Nimführ¹,

Otto²

2020

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“…While it is true that these issues may represent an obstacle to development, a growing strand of literature has sought to counter arguments on islands' disadvantages by reshaping development-oriented definitions of concepts such as 'vulnerability' and 'resilience' (Kelman, 2019). By embracing new views on relationality and empowering discourses, island scholars rightfully warn against excessive prejudice in policymaking and suggest alternative ways of interpreting island realities (Baldacchino, 2018;Chandler & Pugh, 2018). When considering further interpretations which go beyond the island development debate, our case study provides interesting elements for the elaboration of an alternative outlook on the Sicilian-Maltese Archipelago.…”

Section: Long-term Analysis: Sicily and Malta As A Mediterranean Archmentioning

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Envisioning the Sicilian-Maltese archipelago: a Braudelian inspired triple-level analysis of a European cross-border region

Camonita¹

2019

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This article seeks to advance the current debate on the 'archipelagic turn' described by island studies. It does so by answering the call for further analysis of island-to-island relations (Stratford et al., 2011) through applying existing historical methodology with the identification of island movements (Pugh, 2013) between archipelagic islands. Firstly, it proposes the application of an adapted method by combining Fernand Braudel's historical durations (Longue Durée) (1972) with an original attempt of island movements' classification; this is done to conceive a triple-level historical analysis (Long, Medium and Short Term) of islands belonging to archipelagos. Secondly, this article hints at the possibility for island territories inside the European Union to translate archipelagic visions into viable policies by means of European Territorial Cooperation strategies as provided by the European institutional framework. Such arguments are then supported by comparative analysis proving the existence of an archipelago between the islands of Sicily and Malta. In our case study, we both apply the triple-level methodology and suggest that the exploitation of European Cross-Border Cooperation instruments and strategies (such as the Euroregion) could be highly useful for the recovery of a Sicilian-Maltese Archipelago vision.

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“…Grydehøj and Kelman (2017) highlight the "eco-island trap" arising from "conspicuous sustainability," Cheer et al (2017) question how islanders may respond to the eco-cultural tourist imagination, and Pugh (2018) and Chandler and Pugh (2018) argue that emblematic and idealised island visions risk concealing the intense relationalities of the Anthropocene. These differ from critical studies of the global trend for exploiting small island eco-cultural resources, in which our research is broadly situated.…”

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“…These differ from critical studies of the global trend for exploiting small island eco-cultural resources, in which our research is broadly situated. Grydehøj and Kelman (2017) highlight the "eco-island trap" arising from "conspicuous sustainability," Cheer et al (2017) question how islanders may respond to the eco-cultural tourist imagination, and Pugh (2018) and Chandler and Pugh (2018) argue that emblematic and idealised island visions risk concealing the intense relationalities of the Anthropocene.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Islands of enclavisation: Eco‐cultural island tourism and the relational geographies of near‐shore islands

Hong

2018

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Eco-cultural island tourism is a global phenomenon. Accordingly, island studies has engaged with it through a variety of approaches, including relational geography perspectives. However, prevalent relational island studies theories tend to be based on remote, peripheralised archipelagos or urban island power centres and may thus be inappropriate for certain kinds of small, near-shore islands. This paper uses a case study of Qi'ao, Zhuhai, China to argue that such islands may function as enclaves within mainland societies rather than enclaves for mainland societies, rooted in a number of interrelated geographical imaginaries. These imaginaries consolidate Qi'ao's present identity as an urban enclave against industrialisation and the collective intuition of historical discontinuity. It is also argued that, despite its many utilitarian benefits, the model of enclavising small, nearshore islands for tourism begs an ethical question: for whom do these islands serve as enclaves? In response, I call for a new theorisation of small, near-shore island relationality that considers some islands' roles within, rather than simply external to, mainland societies. K E Y W O R D Seco-cultural island tourism, enclaves, enclavisation, Qi'ao, relational geography, Zhuhai | INTRODUCTIONEco-cultural island tourism is a global phenomenon with which the field of island studies has engaged through a variety of approaches, including relational geography perspectives. A key topic of inquiry has been the use of such islands as enclaves relative to the mainland. This paper subjects the tourist experience of the island of Qi'ao (Zhuhai, China) to critical geographical analysis in order to reflect upon this type of island tourism and theories of small, near-shore island relationality more generally.Following clarifications of theoretical framework and methodology, I trace the historical course of the mainland's island imaginaries as they affect Qi'ao in order to discuss how the island has reached its present status as a tourist enclave. I then analyse the relationship between island enclavisation and modernity, questioning the positionality of the island enclave. Finally, I offer conclusions regarding both island tourism and the necessity of theorising island relationalities that are appropriate to small, near-shore islands. I argue that Qi'ao's present urban identity is constructed around the model of an enclave against industrialisation and the collective intuition of historical discontinuity. This raises the question for whom do small, near-shore islands serve as enclaves when they are enclavised for tourism?

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Islands of relationality and resilience: The shifting stakes of the Anthropocene

Cited by 70 publications

References 51 publications

1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

Envisioning the Sicilian-Maltese archipelago: a Braudelian inspired triple-level analysis of a European cross-border region

Islands of enclavisation: Eco‐cultural island tourism and the relational geographies of near‐shore islands

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