Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature : : A Cross-Disciplinary Journey / / ed. by Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato, Matteo Nicolini, Thomas Perrin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Battisti, Chiara,; Bezrucka, Yvonne,; Carpi, Daniela,; Costantini, Cristina,; Duranti, Francesco,; Fiorato, Sidia,; Giordana, Lara,; Majeske, Andrew,; Martinetti, Joseph,; Nicolini, Matteo,; Paksy, Mate,; Perrin, Thomas,; Sawada, Yuki,
• HerausgeberIn: Battisti, Chiara,; Fiorato, Sidia,; Nicolini, Matteo,; Perrin, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Law & Literature , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 254 p.)

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. The product of a cross-disciplinary exchange on islands, this edited volume will be of great interest to those working in the fields of Island Studies, as well as literary studies scholars, geographers, and legal scholars.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Island-ness: A ‘New Province’ of Cross-Disciplinary Research -- Part One: Remote Islands as Fictional Landscapes -- The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law -- Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Crisis of Western Liberalism -- The Unbelievable History of Rose Island, a Micronation -- Part Two: Geographical Imaginaries: Law, Literature and Ecological Crises -- Humanistic Enchantment: A Durational Reading of Imagined Adaptations -- Aldous Huxley’s Island(ness): Politics and Ecology -- Common Law, Environmental Titles, and Remote Islands in Times of Climate Change -- J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and the Island of the Self -- Part Three: Organising Remoteness: Legal and Institutional Perspectives -- Islands and Territorial Cooperation in the European Union: Overview and Outlooks -- A Geopolitical Study of the Mediterranean Insularity: Islands as Outposts of the European Union on the Most Intense Fracture Line in the World -- Faraway, so Close: Islands and Constitutional Remoteness in the Nordic Countries -- Part Four: Outlining Insular Identity: Some Case Studies -- From Islands-of-Islands to the Archipelago: Re-appropriating Relatedness in the Belep Islands (Kanaky-New Caledonia) -- In Memory of Madama Butterfly: An Insular View on an International Convention -- ‘Jolly Good Show. Like The Coral Island’ – Golding’s Lord Of The Flies in the Perspective of Law and Literature -- Contributors -- Index