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978-1-78661-545-9 • Hardback • October 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
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James (Jim) Randall teaches at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, where he is also the coordinator of the Island Studies program, leads the Institute of Island Studies and is the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability. A geographer by training, Jim developed a love of Island Studies later in his career. His research spans many aspects of this interdisciplinary field, with a special interest in development, quality-of-life, and islander-newcomer relationships on small islands.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Definitions and Classifications of Islands
2 Physical Processes and Islands
3 Images of Islands from Literature and the Popular Media
4 The Settling of Islands and Indigenous-Outsider Interactions
5 Islands, Islandness, and Culture
6 Geopolitics and Island Governance
7 Islands, Population, and the Movement of People
8 Island Health and Epidemiology
9 Economic Change, Development, and Islands
10 Island Tourism
11 Islands in the Age of Sustainability and Sustainable Development
Conclusions and Future Directions in Island Studies
Figure and Image Credits
References
Index
In this introduction to island studies, James Randall offers us a meticulously researched, exquisitely collated, trans-disciplinary text that serves as a comprehensive and critical review of the study of islands. Here is an authoritative yet jargon-free primer to introduce the study of islanded people, species and places.
— Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta; president of International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA).
James Randall has seamlessly integrated his wealth of knowledge and years of research into this comprehensive book. Written in plain terms that make it accessible for a wide range of readers, it will be an excellent guide for all who want to learn or teach about island issues in the world.
— Yoko Fujita, University of the Ryukyus
At last a comprehensive introduction to island studies! James Randall has provided students with a perceptive, highly readable introduction to the study of islands, whether their focus is on the nature of Islandness, or the future of sustainable island communities, whether on the geography of the sunny islands of the Pacific, or the misty islands of the North Atlantic. Whatever their island interests, here they will find profound insight based on exhaustive research.
— Andrew Jennings, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland