Introduction: Island cultures and festivals - a creative ecosystem
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Niaah, S.S
Papoutsaki, Evangelia
Papoutsaki, Evangelia
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2024
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island studies
cultural geography
interdisciplinary studies
festivals
tourism
geopolitics
environmental policy
cultural geography
interdisciplinary studies
festivals
tourism
geopolitics
environmental policy
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Niaah. S.S. & Papoutsaki, E. (2024). Introduction: Island cultures and festivals - a creative ecosystem. In Papoutsaki, E. and Niaah, S. S.(Eds) Island Festivals: A creative ecosystem (pp. 44-70). University of the West India Press, Kingston, Jamaica. ISBN 9789766409678
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6874
Abstract
ONE FEATURE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IS THE PARADOX of inclusivity inside exclusivity or even cohesion inside isolation as part of the character of geo-culturally specific phenomena such as islands. Islands are bounded yet, more often than not, unbounded by the movement across their multiple borders. They are also often vulnerable, with the task of constantly considering and planning for sustainable outcomes. Among the disciplinary configurations that seek to engage these geo-cultural phenomena, it is well acknowledged that island studies has developed into an established, interdisciplinary research field (Shima Editorial Board 2007), one that has attempted to grapple with existential questions around sustainability and resilience as well as geopolitics and economics. However, specific research and comparative analysis of island cultures within a field that identifies itself as Island Studies is a more recent phenomenon. For Grydehøj (2017, 3), the former editor of the Island Studies Journal, it is “important that island studies not only continue deepening its internal theoretical understandings but also reach out to other fields and regions that have received limited attention within island studies”
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