Bibliografia insular. 1985-2009 (2024)

bibliografias: insularidades

Os discursos da ant-insularidade e o poio madeirense

o debate e as questões da insularidade e (ultra9 perificidade

VIEIRA, Alberto AUTONOMIA INSULAR. ALGUNS DADOS PARA OUTRA LEITURA

A Autonomia insular foi quase sempre entendida como uma questão de conflito nas relações entre a me - trópole e os arquipélagos. A documentação e discurso históricos denunciam, por vezes, um jogo escondido de interesses, no sentido do reforço ou manutenção do Es - tado centralista. Assim, por exemplo, desde 1822 que os arquipélagos dos Açores e Madeira passaram a ser desig- nados de ilhas adjacentes. Estas ilhas, embora afastadas do continente europeu, foram, então, amarradas ao litoral português e desanexadas da proximidade de outras ilhas atlânticas e da sua ligação institucional às demais colónias do reino. É nítida nesta atitude do Governo Central a inten - ção de as diferenciar do demais território, retirando justi- ficação a uma possível aliança de enquadramento jurídi- co-institucional ou a um emparceiramento reivindicativo, que pudesse ferir a integridade do Estado centralista.

Il discorso dell'anti-insularità e il poio maderense come sua negazione

traduzione a cura di Jacopo BASSI All'esiguità dello spazio geografico, il maderense antepone l'idea di isola come centro del mondo, affermando così la sua anti-insularità. La realtà, determina dunque il suo contrario. L'idea di poio – terrazzamento – come forma di delimitazione e affermazione del proprio spazio e della propria vita, porta e rafforza l'isolamento e l'insularizzazione. In termini mentali, tutto nella vita del maderense si riduce al cosiddetto poio. È là che il maderense trova lo spazio per costruire la casa e la terra per sfruttare le risorse naturali che pure non gli garantiscono mai la piena sussistenza. Qui ha costruito il suo mondo, isolato e insularizzato. Siamo di fronte a una realtà che si afferma in termini mentali come la prova dell'insularità, assumendo, molte volte, la funzione di una doppia insularità. A partire da queste premesse interpreteremo l'idea e la presenza fisica del poio come una forma di affermazione dell'insularità e di negazione della retorica dell'anti-insularità. Il concetto tanto diffuso di «insularità», a cui si ricorre come ancora di salvezza per spiegare squilibri e regressioni delle strutture insulari, ha creato ciò che può essere incarnato in un fatto molto concreto: l'isolamento. La questione è che esso può essere attenuato attraverso misure obiettive di adeguamento razionale del sistema di comunicazione e dei mezzi di trasporto. Forse per questa ragione oggi si parla tanto di insularità: perché, essendo un termine dal contenuto mal definito, responsabilizza molto meno le persone. Oltre al ruolo fondamentale che il sistema di comunicazioni gioca in qualsiasi tipo di economia insulare, i trasporti sono un elemento imprescindibile di coesione della comunità nazionale. Questa, che sembra

From Pacific Way to Pacific Solution: Sovereignty and Dependence in Oceanic Literature

Australian Humanities Review, 2015

The Australian Government’s response to asylum seekers since 2001 has been much criticized, primarily by legal scholars from the standpoint of international and human rights law. The goal of this paper, in contrast, situates “The Pacific Solution” as part of a longer story of postcolonial sovereignty in Oceania. Rather than focus on the legal or human rights implications of offshore detention, I consider the necessary and prior constitution of Pacific Islands as potential external detention sites through a lens attentive to colonial history, decolonising desires and contemporary regional relationships. To do so, this essay examines key literary representations that address the postcolonial political imaginaries of Oceania. These include: The Crocodile (1970), Vincent Eri’s groundbreaking novel written in the waning years of Australian colonial rule in Papua New Guinea; a collection of satirical short stories from well known Tongan academic and writer Epeli Hau’ofa, Tales of the Tikongs (1983); and finally, the short story “Escape from Jayapura” (1997) by PNG writer Nash G. Sorariba. In reading these texts for their depictions of colonial and neocolonial relationships in the Pacific, I trace important transformations in the configuration of sovereignty, authority and territory. Such shifts, I argue, have created the pre-conditions for our twenty-first century moment in which the body of the asylum-seeker functions as a new form of global currency.

The University of the South Pacific: Context, Purpose and Prospect

Vestes, 1984

R. Gerard Ward: quintessential Pacific geographer

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 1999

Insularity, Political Status and Small Insular Spaces: a Critical Review

This article focuses on islands and archipelagos around the world and considers their field of study. It aims first to trace the outline of the geographical object and its limits. Rather than attempting to provide a positive definition of an island, the article posits a category of small insular spaces. Next, by providing a thorough analysis of the notion of insularity, the study demonstrates the limits of certain physical determinisms. I propose a typology of insularities in order to open lines of inquiry and provide indications as to the levels of development and integration of small insular spaces in a world economy. However, the trends laid out in this typology should by no means be expanded into rules or laws relating to the relative influence of insularity. The position of islands in the world system does not take precedence over their relative position in relation to the main island or an industrialised home country. The influence of political status on the levels of development will also be examined.

Isolated and vulnerable: the history and future of Pacific Island terrestrial biodiversity

Pacific Conservation Biology

Islands in the tropical Pacific have a rich and unique biota produced by island biogeographic processes and modified by recent anthropogenic influences. This biota has been shaped by four overlapping phases: natural colonization and dynamics (phase 1), impacts of indigenous (phase 2) and non-indigenous (phase 3) settlers, and increasing environmental awareness (phase 4). Island ecosystems are resilient to natural disturbance regimes but highly vulnerable to invasive species and other human-related influences, due to comparatively low alpha diversity, isolated evolution and the absence of certain functional groups. Habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive alien species and pollution continue to threaten terrestrial biodiversity, compounded by limited environmental awareness, minimal conservation funding, project mismanagement, limited local capacity and inadequate and/or unsuitable conservation policies. To achieve effective conservation of terrestrial biodiversity in the region, bio...

FRAMING THE ISLANDS POWER AND DIPLOMATIC AGENCY IN PACIFIC REGIONALISM

Framing the Islands: Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism, 2019

Since its origins in late eighteenth-century European thought, the idea of placing a regional frame around the Pacific islands has never been just an exercise in geographical mapping. This framing has always been a political exercise. Contending regional projects and visions have been part of a political struggle concerning how Pacific islanders should live their lives. Framing the Islands tells the story of this political struggle and its impact on the regional governance of key issues for the Pacific such as regional development, resource management, security, cultural identity, political agency, climate change and nuclear involvement. It tells this story in the context of a changing world order since the colonial period and of changing politics within the post-colonial states of the Pacific.