Author: Simone PinetPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816666717
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.
Archipelagoes
Author: Simone PinetPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816666717
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.
Archipelagoes
Author: Xavier W. NizPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736861403
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
"Describes archipelagoes, including how they form, plants and animals on archipelagoes, how people and weather change archipelagoes, archipelagoes in North America, and the Malay Archipelago"--Provided by publisher.
The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia
Author: Australasia: Malaysia and the Pacific archipelagoes, by F.H.H. Guillemard
Author: Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking
Author: Michelle Stephens Michelle StephensPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786612771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking takes as point of departure the insights of Antonio Benítez Rojo, Derek Walcott and Edouard Glissant on how to conceptualize the Caribbean as a space in which networks of islands are constitutive of a particular epistemology or way of thinking. This rich volumetakes questions that have explored the Caribbean and expands them to a global, Anthropocenic framework. This anthology explores the archipelagic as both a specific and a generalizable geo-historical and cultural formation, occurring across various planetary spaces including: the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, the Caribbean basin, the Malay archipelago, Oceania, and the creole islands of the Indian Ocean. As an alternative geo-formal unit, archipelagoes can interrogate epistemologies, ways of reading and thinking, and methodologies informed implicitly or explicitly by more continental paradigms and perspectives. Keeping in mind the structuring tension between land and water, and between island and mainland relations, the archipelagic focuses on the types of relations that emerge, island to island, when island groups are seen not so much as sites of exploration, identity, sociopolitical formation, and economic and cultural circulation, but also, and rather, as models. The book includes 21 chapters, a series of poems and an Afterword from both senior and junior scholars in American Studies, Archaeology, Biology, Cartography, Digital Mapping, Environmental Studies, Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, Politics, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, and Sociology who engage with Archipelago studies. Archipelagic Studies has become a framework with a robust intellectual genealogy.. The particular strength of this handbook is the diversity of fields and theoretical approaches in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences that the included essays engage with. There is an editor's introduction in which they meditate about the specific contributions of the archipelagic framework in interdisciplinary analyses of multi-focal and transnational socio-political and cultural context, and in which they establish a dialogue between archipelagic thinking and network theory, assemblages, systems theory, or the study of islands, oceans and constellations.
Australasia: Malaysia and the Pacific archipelagoes, by F.H.H. Guillemard
Author: Alfred Russel WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes
Author: John Stanley GardinerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laccadive Archipelago
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Think Like an Archipelago
Author: Michael WiedornPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438467036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A career-spanning assessment of Glissants work as a philosophical project. With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissants work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissants philosophy. The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a new category of literature, and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself. The books use of the central concept of paradox is both original and convincing, and allows Wiedorn to reframe many of the issues surrounding Glissants thought in a new and illuminating way. Celia Britton, author of Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance
Ecological Principles of Nature Conservation
Author: I. HanssonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461535247
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This volume is the first in a series entitled Conservation Ecology: Principles, Practices and Management, a theme which Elsevier's pioneer ing journal Biological Conservation has promoted since its foundation thirty-three years ago. The science of conservation ecology is now widely acknowledged as an essential component in the planning and develop ment of activities which change or modify our natural environment. Nevertheless in spite of much research and publicity, there is still a wide gap between theory and practice. Today it is especially important to try to bridge this gap by interpreting the results of ecological research so that they are understandable and relevant to a wide range of land managers, agriculturalists, foresters, and those working in the many categories of protected areas. The volumes in this series are designed to fulfil this purpose, and also to play an important educational role for students of the environmental sciences in schools, universities and other institutions.
Indonesia beyond the Water’s Edge
Author: R. B. CribbPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812309845
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state, with more than 18,000 islands and over 7.9 million square kilometres of sea. The marine frontier presents the nation with both economic opportunities and political and strategic challenges. Indonesia has been affected more than most countries in the world by a slow revolution in the management of its waters. Whereas Indonesia’s seas were once conceived administratively as little more than the empty space between islands, successive governments have become aware that this view is outmoded. The effective transfer to the seas of regulatory regimes that took shape on land, such as territoriality, has been an enduring challenge to Indonesian governments. This book addresses issues related to maritime boundaries and security, marine safety, inter-island shipping, the development of the archipelagic concept in international law, marine conservation, illegal fishing, and the place of the sea in national and regional identity.