Call for articles Urban Island Studies Journal
Special issue | ‘Peripheral Discourses of Modernity’ (2016)
Deadline for articles: 31 January 2016
Islands are paradoxical. Although perceived as peripheral relative to mainlands and continents, islands are also centres of affective, cultural, and identity reference for those who were born and/or live on them. As spaces of transit and encounters, insular peripheries are moreover sociocultural and political realities marked by transgression, innovation, and (re)creativity….
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