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

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature

A Cross-Disciplinary Journey

Edited by: Chiara Battisti , Sidia Fiorato , Matteo Nicolini and Thomas Perrin

Volume 20 in the series Law & Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770162

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Matteo Nicolini, Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato, U of Verona, Italy; Thomas Perrin, Montpellier School of Architecture, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Island-ness: A ‘New Province’ of Cross-Disciplinary Research Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato, Matteo Nicolini and Thomas Perrin Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Part One: Remote Islands as Fictional Landscapes
The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Crisis of Western Liberalism Andrew Majeske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Unbelievable History of Rose Island, a Micronation Yvonne Bezrucka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part Two: Geographical Imaginaries: Law, Literature and Ecological Crises
Humanistic Enchantment: A Durational Reading of Imagined Adaptations Cristina Costantini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Aldous Huxley’s Island(ness): Politics and Ecology Chiara Battisti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Common Law, Environmental Titles, and Remote Islands in Times of Climate Change Matteo Nicolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and the Island of the Self Sidia Fiorato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Part Three: Organising Remoteness: Legal and Institutional Perspectives
Islands and Territorial Cooperation in the European Union: Overview and Outlooks Thomas Perrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
A Geopolitical Study of the Mediterranean Insularity: Islands as Outposts of the European Union on the Most Intense Fracture Line in the World Joseph Martinetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Faraway, so Close: Islands and Constitutional Remoteness in the Nordic Countries Francesco Duranti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
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) Lara Giordana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
In Memory of Madama Butterfly: An Insular View on an International Convention Yuki Sawada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
‘Jolly Good Show. Like The Coral Island’ – Golding’s Lord Of The Flies in the Perspective of Law and Literature Mate Paksy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Lawyers, Literary Scholars, Geographers, scholars in the field of Island Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 254
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 6
Keywords: Island Studies; Law and the Humanities; Law and Geography

eBook

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110770162

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110769692