Ports and Digital Ports: The Narrative Construction and Social Imaginaries of the Island City of Mumbai

Swaminathan, Ramanathan

doi:10.20958/uis.2015.3

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“…Then, [16] highlighted the position of George Town as a creative city that can be a center of growth and progress to encourage economic development in Malaysia. Furthermore, [32] explained the influence of digital ports and ports on the socio-economic characteristics of Mumbai which were formed from a collection of seven islands which were physically joined through the reclamation process, construction of roads, trains, vehicles, and bridges.…”

Section: B Review Of Articles In Urban Island Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Island Concept and The Relevance for Archipelagic States: Case of Ambon City-Maluku Province

Nurhaeny¹,

Miharja²,

Pradono³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Maritime and Archipelago (ICoMA 2018)

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The recent studies of Island tend to focus on peripheral, isolated, and marginality aspects of the island community in mainland context. However, the understanding about interactions of several elements in archipelago development has to encompass broader context, including marine space and the others island which create a spatial system called urban island concept. The formation process of an urban island, comprising "strongly urbanized small islands or archipelagos" or "major population centers of large islands or archipelagos" are also essential issues that have not been fully explored. The issues of urban islands have become the concern of island researchers, such as in Copenhagen,

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Section: B Review Of Articles In Urban Island Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Island Concept and The Relevance for Archipelagic States: Case of Ambon City-Maluku Province

Nurhaeny¹,

Miharja²,

Pradono³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Maritime and Archipelago (ICoMA 2018)

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“…Some scholars believe it does. Swaminathan's (2015) interpretation of the identity construction of the island city of Mumbai through the city's abundance of narratives and social imaginaries is a case in point. Swaminathan's overall presupposition is that a city is both a "physical structure" and an "organic body," which is "poetically and metaphysically portrayed as having a soul" (Swaminathan, 2015, p. 35).…”

Section: Do These Discourses Produce An Organic Collective Self?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Locating Zhuhai between land and sea: a relational production of Zhuhai, China, as an island city

Hong¹

2017

ISJ

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ABSTRACT:Despite an abundance of representations that focalize Zhuhai's island and coastal features in both academic and popular discourses, serious engagement with the lived sociogeographic realities of the 'city of a hundred islands' are few and far between. As a critical reaction, this paper seeks a relational production of Zhuhai, China as an island city with specific urban island spatiality. The focus/locus problematic is deployed within the wider context of the relational turn in island studies. First, representations that bring Zhuhai's islandness into focus are categorized and analyzed. It is questioned whether these discourses have constructed for the city an organic collective self that identifies with island and marine values. In an effort to de-focus Zhuhai's island and coastal geographies and re-produce them as locus, a series of place-specific relational issues pertinent to urban island studies are addressed, such as the relationship between island spatiality and city formation, land-sea configurations, and the nature of urban public space between land and sea. It is argued that the island city of Zhuhai's imaginaries and the concretization of its island and coastal possibilities follow a trajectory that is island conscious and mainland unconscious. To propose alternative theoretical models for a more nuanced understanding of the lived realities of the island city of Zhuhai and island cities in general, the paper concludes by re-contextualizing the focus/locus dichotomy within the wider theoretical framework of the relational turn in island studies.

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“…Adam Grydehøj (2015aGrydehøj ( , 2015b has demonstrated that island and archipelago spatiality have a strong effect on urbanisation processes and that, under certain geographical conditions, such spatiality can foster the development of very dense and very large cities. Other scholars have used the concept of island cities as a means of understanding the effects of islandness in urban environments, of seeing how the 'island lure' functions even in centres of economic, political, and cultural power (e.g., Swaminathan, 2015;Steyn, 2015;Casagrande, 2016;Su, 2017).…”

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Sacred islands and island symbolism in Ancient and Imperial China: an exercise in decolonial island studies

Luo¹,

Grydehøj²

2017

ISJ

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This paper explores conceptions of islands in Ancient and Imperial China. From at least the 3rd Century BCE, mainland Chinese culture regarded islands as sacred, unapproachable fairylands, home to the elixir of immortality. This inspired a trend for voyages in search of mythological sacred islands as well as a landscape architecture trend for constructing artificial islands in imperial palace gardens. Over time, Taoism came to associate islands with the home of the gods, and Chinese Buddhism came to associate islands with dragon kings. As China's maritime activity increased, so, too, did fiction regarding islands of adventure. These conceptions of sacred islands and islands of adventure coexisted with the use of actual islands as places of political exile. By exploring island traditions in Chinese literature, this paper adds to our knowledge of how and why people throughout history have regarded islands and archipelagos as special. This paper also pursues a decolonial island studies by challenging some of the Eurocentric and imperialistic tendencies within the research field, which have led to a privileging of Western island metaphors and understandings.

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Ports and Digital Ports: The Narrative Construction and Social Imaginaries of the Island City of Mumbai

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Urban Island Concept and The Relevance for Archipelagic States: Case of Ambon City-Maluku Province

Urban Island Concept and The Relevance for Archipelagic States: Case of Ambon City-Maluku Province

Locating Zhuhai between land and sea: a relational production of Zhuhai, China, as an island city

Sacred islands and island symbolism in Ancient and Imperial China: an exercise in decolonial island studies

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