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Description of  Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature: A Cross-Disciplinary Journey (Issn, 20)

This collection explores the heterogeneous places we have traditionally been taught to term 'islands.' It stages a conversation on the very idea of 'island-ness', thus contributing to a new field of research at the crossroads of law, geography, literature, urban planning, politics, arts, and cultural studies. The contributions to this volume discuss the notion of island-ness as a device triggering the imagination, triggering narratives and representations in different creative fields they explore the interactions between legal, socio-political, and fictional approaches to remoteness and the 'state of insularity, ' policy responses to both remoteness and boundaries on different scales, and the insular legal framing of geographical remoteness. Read more