Publications

Authors:

Nicolini, Matteo

Title:

Special issue on Geographical connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness

Year:

2021

Type of item:

Curatela

Tipologia ANVUR:

Curatela

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Publisher:

Spring

Keyword:

Comparative Law; Geographical Studies; Islands as Metaphors; Interdisciplinarity research

Short description of contents:

The special issue is dedicated to cross-disciplinary research on insular condition and insularity. Situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical studies, it explores the intriguing topic of “Island-ness” by placing emphasis on how physical, legal, and imaginative remoteness articulates a variety of geographical connections. These reflect several issues, such as territorial (and maritime) localisation, insular ontology, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries. The special issue delivers both a synthetic view of these questions and opens up further perspectives for reflection. The papers examine how geographical connections trigger different legal, as well as constitutional, frameworks suitable for geographically distant islands, which, evidently, depend on how remote these islands actually are. The contributions survey various topics and adopt different approaches in order to ascertain how geographical connections and remoteness intertwine. Beyond this richness of inputs, the essays reveal some common features of islands and remoteness as objects of geographical and legal representation. Besides organising society, the law arranges geographical connections so as to act as a bridge linking the reality of remoteness to an imagined alternative able of securing the governance of the above-mentioned remote societal contexts.

Web page:

https://link.springer.com/journal/10991/volumes-and-issues/42-1

Product ID:

120662

Handle IRIS:

11562/1041181

Last Modified:

May 18, 2021

Bibliographic citation:

Special issue on Geographical connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness , eds. Nicolini, Matteo , Spring , 2021

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