Sea level rise and extreme weather events threaten the livelihoods and possibly the long-
term existence of whole island nations. While the media, policy, and often scientific arenas …

Island waste management professionals are faced with limited land resources, high energy
costs, large seasonal fluctuations in waste volumes, and complex social and political …

From offshore border enforcement to detention centers on remote islands, struggles over
human smuggling, detention, asylum, and associated policies play out along the …

The question is posed: is a coherent theory of islandness–nissology–possible? Faultlines
within constructions of islands and islandness are noted. Some of these axes of contestation …

Islands are sites of innovative conceptualizations, whether of nature or human enterprise,
whether virtual or real. The study of islands on their own terms today enjoys a growing and …

The pursuit of nissology, or island studies, calls for a re-centering of focus from mainland to
island, away from the discourse of conquest of mainlanders, giving voice and platform for the …

The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility,
sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews …

This article argues that the narrow and frequently negative conceptualisations of small
island states as environmentally vulnerable and economically dependent are problematic …

Small island develo** states (SIDS) are portrayed as icons of climate change impacts,
with assumed islandness characteristics being used to emphasize vulnerability. Meanwhile …

Tuvalu, a place whose image in the 'West'is as a small island state, insignificant and remote
on the world stage, is becoming remarkably prominent in connection with the contemporary …