Island Geographies

"The manner in which the Editor has worked to link structure to the coherence of analysis is one of the outstanding features of this neatly presented book... A bibliography that supplements all 10 chapters and which is impressive in its coherence and scope...The penultimate chapter adds a reaffirming endnote to the discussions that had preceded this point in the cumulative narrative. Readers who are aspiring researchers in these overlapping fields of geographical enquiry can take inspiration from this conversation." Keith Jackson (2019): Islands, maps, conflicts: the recurring relevance of physical geography in the Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Business Review, DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2019.1686244

"In Island Geographies, an impressive and diverse collection of essays, and a terrific, but singular conversation, considers the contemporary implications and challenges the dominance of continental discourse... Island Geographies calls into question the very processes by which we imagine things to bound into an impermeable category when they are entangled in mobile, changeable, and relational settings...This collection draws its readers away from the dominant paradigm of continental thinking; it draws us away from thinking of islands as simplistically insular—as small spaces of isolation. Instead, through discussion of the complexities of deep sea mining, climate change and management of environmental, cultural and heritage values and approaches to economic sustainability, waste management and literary and political representations of islandness, island geographies are revealed less categorical, more entangled, and less bounded than they might seem from the limitations of continental perspectives. Island Geographies invites rethinking much that is taken-for-granted—and in the process often claimed or taken by those empowered by continental discourses." Book Review by Richard Howitt, Macquarie University, Australia in Geographical Research (2018, 56(2), 241–245)