Island Studies Journal
Vol. 16, No. 2
November 2021

• Front Cover
• Colophon
• Table of Contents

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Scholarly Papers

Special Section: Representing islands – producing islandness: Rethinking identities, mobilities, and relations in island research
(Editors: Sarah Nimführ & Greca N. Meloni)

• Guest editorial: Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies
  Sarah Nimführ & Greca N. Meloni
• The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives
  Eva-Maria Knoll
• (Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility
  Sarah Nimführ & Laura Otto
• Cainà: Islandscape and ‘islanderscope’ on screen
  Myriam Mereu & Daniele Gavelli
• “Minutes away, worlds apart”: The changing imagination of the Boston Harbor Islands
  Pavla Šimková
• Hospitality and exchange: Identity relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in Sardinia
  Gaspare Messana
• Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism
  Martina Giuffrè
• Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji
  Delilah Griswold

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Other Scholarly Papers

• Riverine complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River
  Christian Fleury & Philip Hayward
• Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui
  Kay Bergamini, Roberto Moris, Piroska Ángel, Daniela Zaviezo, & Horacio Gilabert
• Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch
  Margaret A. Amundson
• Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)
  Sophie Fuggle
• The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism
  Solène Prince, Meng Qu, & Simona Zollet
• Island tourism carrying capacity in the UNESCO Site Laurisilva of Madeira
  Luís Mota, Mara Franco, & Rossana Santos
• Remoteness, islands and islandness
  Owe Ronström
• Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study
  Rajesh Sannegadu, Alfred Henrico, & Louis van Staden
• The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera
  Joan Carles Cirer-Costa
• Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community
  Tuulia Lerkkanen & Matilda Hellman
• Island narratives in the making of Japan: The Kojiki in geocultural context
  Henry Johnson

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Book Reviews

• Hiroko Matsuda (2019). Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan (reviewers: Xili Wu & Huilong Li)
• James E. Randall (2021). An Introduction to Island Studies. (reviewer: Ayano Ginoza)
• Andrew Spencer (2019). Travel and Tourism in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Small Island Developing States. (reviewer: Francielle Laclé)
• Lino Briguglio, Jessica Byron, Stefano Moncada, and Wouter Veenendaal (2020). Handbook of Governance in Small States. (reviewer: Courtney Lindsay)
• Jaine Beswick (2019). Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey: Migration and the Channel Islands. (reviewers: Xianlong Zu & Yutong Yuan)
• Anders Emil Rasmussen (2015). In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community. (reviewer: Dominik Schieder)