Island Studies Journal – Vol. 9, No. 2
November 2014

• Front Cover
• Contents

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Scholarly Articles

Special Section: Island Cities

• Guest editorial introduction: Understanding island cities
  Adam Grydehøj
• Defining the island city: ancient right versus modern metropolis, as considered at Peel, Isle of Man
  Patricia Adrienne Tutt
• Constructing a centre on the periphery: urbanization and urban design in the island city of Nuuk, Greenland
  Adam Grydehøj
• Insular identity and urban contexts: representations of the local in the construction of an image of Palma (Majorca, Balearic Islands)
  Mercè Picornell
• Tourism capitalism and island urbanization: tourist accommodation diffusion in the Balearics, 1936-2010
  Antoni Pons, Onofre Rullan & Ivan Murray
• Accidental and ideal island cities: islanding processes and urban design in Belize City and the urban archipelagos of Europe
  Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis & Adam Grydehøj
• The epistemology of a sea view: mindscapes of space, power and value in Mumbai
  Ramanathan Swaminathan

Other Papers

• Accessibility of islands: towards a new geography based on transportation modes and choices
  Sofia Karampela, Thanasis Kizos & Ioannis Spilanis
• Development of a behavioural framework for analyzing employment mobility decisions in island areas: the case of the Aegean Islands, Greece
  Eleni Kitrinou
• Water resources and the historic wells of Barbuda: tradition, heritage and hope for a sustainable future
  Rebecca Boger, Sophia Perdikaris, Amy E. Potter, John Mussington, Reginald Murphy, Louise Thomas, Calvin Gore & Dwight Finch
• Immigrants, islandness and perceptions of quality-of-life on Prince Edward Island, Canada
  James E. Randall, Peter Kitchen, Nazeem Muhajarine, Bruce Newbold, Allison Williams & Kathleen Wilson
• A note on the significance of geographic location in island studies
  Jerome L. McElroy & Holly Lucas
• The significance of geographic location in island studies: a rejoinder (1)
  Harvey W. Armstrong & Robert Read
• The significance of geographic location in island studies: a rejoinder (2)
  Bernard Poirine
• A response to McElroy & Lucas
  Geoff Bertram
• Responding to Armstrong & Read, Poirine and Bertram
  Jerome L. McElroy

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Book Reviews

• Atoll island states and international law: Climate change displacement and sovereignty by Lilian Yamamoto & Miguel Esteban (reviewer: Ilan Kelman)
• Stolen isles: Shetland’s true status by Stuart Hill (reviewer: Godfrey Baldacchino)
• Making Micronesia: A political biography of Tosiwo Nakayama by David Hanlon (reviewer: David Kupferman)
• Biodiversity and societies in the Pacific Islands by Sébastien Larrue (Ed.) (reviewer: Russell Fielding)
• Backpacker tourism and economic development: Perspectives from the less economic developed world by Mark P. Hampton; Tourism and inclusive growth in small island developing states by Mark P. Hampton & Julia Jeyacheya (reviewer: Kevin M. Hannum)
• Tax havens and sovereignty in the Pacific Islands by Anthony Van Fossen (reviewer: Jane Gravelle)
• Special issue: Tiritiri Matangi Island: 25 years of ecological restoration. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 37(3), 2013, by Mel Galbraith, John Craig, Neil Mitchell & Hester Cooper (Eds.) (reviewer: David Bade)
• Soqotra archipelago (Yemen): Toward systemic and scientifically objective sustainability in development and conservation by Fabio Attorre (Ed.) (reviewer: Russell Fielding)
• In the interval of the wave: Prince Edward Island women’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century life writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen (reviewer: Kristie Collins)
• Transitioning to a green economy: Political economy of approaches in small states by Nadine Smith, Anna Halton & Janet Strachan (Eds.) (reviewer: Ioannis Spilanis).

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