Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature : : A Cross-Disciplinary Journey /

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

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 cultura...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 254 p.)
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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

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