Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within

Nadarajah, Yaso; Martinez, Elena Burgos; Su, Ping; Grydehøj, Adam

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“…It is also predominantly Western scholars who write about specific peoples and places with which they have limited familiarity. It is the epistemic privilege of the West to see its own vision of the world as the objective truth and thus universally applicable, justifying the universal reproduction of the West and neocolonial extraction of knowledge resources from the non‐West (Nadarajah et al, 2022; Wynter, 2003).…”

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“…These relate to wider societal difficulties when it comes to the legitimation and institutionalisation of the non‐West within Western and Westernised networks and organisations. But they also relate to island studies in distinct ways.” (Nadarajah et al, 2022, p. 4)…”

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“…Three of this paper's four authors are members of ISJ 's current editorial board and were among the authors of the aforementioned editorial (Nadarajah et al, 2022). We possess professional and emotional stakes in the journal's success.…”

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Tensions and challenges in the decolonisation of academic publishing: A cross‐tabulation analysis of articles in Island Studies Journal

Grydehøj

Shou-juan

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Calls to decolonise academia are increasing, yet progress has been halting, including in academic publishing. This paper considers publishing practices and outcomes in Island Studies Journal (a diamond open access, multidisciplinary, high-ranked journal), which has taken an explicitly decolonial editorial direction in recent years. We undertake a crosstabulation analysis of the 175 articles published in Island Studies Journal between January 2017 and October 2022, attending to characteristics of authors, articles, regions, branches of science, and impact. We find that coloniality and the West/non-West divide remain prevalent in the journal, with differences in the kinds of research scholars from different regions can get published and the kinds of impact their articles make. Western scholarly norms are reproduced and enforced even in a journal that seeks to support antiracism and decolonization. We discuss the editorial tensions involved in seeking to simultaneously increase opportunities for individual intersectionally marginalized scholars while challenging colonial power structures.

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Tensions and challenges in the decolonisation of academic publishing: A cross‐tabulation analysis of articles in Island Studies Journal

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“…This lack of diversity is not because island perspectives are unavailable, but, because it appears that Trinidad and Tobago is the fulcrum of research potential due to its location as the gateway between the North and the South. Despite this limitation, it should be noted that the articles contained in this edition of Island Studies Journal are extremely efficacious as they serve to serve to alleviate the "epistemic dominance and invisibility which continue to limit island studies' potential" (Nadarajah et al, 2022). The articles also facilitate a greater understanding and production of knowledge about islands that is aimed at exiting contemporary paradigms of knowledge production and transference that is so Westerncentric that Hall (1993) refers to it as 'the West and the rest'.…”

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Policing and justice in island communities

Wallace¹,

Neptune-Figaro²

2023

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Research focusing on policing and the justice systems from an island perspective is available, but extremely rare. Additionally, available research on policing and justice systems in island contexts is usually conducted by non-island scholars using a limited frame of reference on ‘islandness’. Instructively, conventional wisdom suggest that it is academically imprecise and improper to universalise scholarship from countries with large land masses onto islands with unique topographies and challenges. This thematic section, highlights the inherent qualities of policing and justice systems in island communities by way of engagement with the existing body of island and ocean studies literature as well as by way of theoretically informed and methodologically appropriate research conducted by a judicial mix of early, mid- and established career scholars. The authors of the article in this thematic section present their scholarly efforts from diverse perspectives and contributes to decolonization efforts in island studies. Ultimately, the articles advance the call for a move away from colonial epistemology and hegemony in knowledge production and transference to situating island scholars and scholarship within island studies. In sum, this thematic section contributes to the emergent body of literature on both policing and the justice systems and studies on island communities.

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“…In response to such a dilemma, Luo and Grydehøj (2017, p. 40) highlight that a truly decolonial practice must go beyond simply imposing Western terms and thoughts on Indigenous or non-Western contexts and should embrace epistemological diversity by supporting alternative, minority cultures and knowledges "that predated, have existed alongside, or arose in spite of imperialism and colonial processes." However, this is not easy to achieve, especially in the international academic community where Western epistemology and knowledge production are still privileged (Nadarajah et al, 2022).…”

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Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture

Su¹,

Xiao²,

Zhu³

2022

ISJ

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The trope of the utopian island occurs in a variety of cultural traditions. For example, in the West, the literary imagination of ideal islandness made manifest an imperialist rhetoric and contributed to European exploration and colonization. The tension between utopia and dystopia is an intrinsic feature of Western utopian island imaginations, which were complicit in colonial exploitation and oppression. Western models of island utopias and dystopias have been imposed on non-Western cultures, whose scholars have engaged in decolonial practices by adapting, reshaping, and transforming these conceptualizations. This special section, demonstrating the inherent intercultural qualities of utopian and dystopian island visions from diverse cultural traditions, contributes to decolonization efforts in island studies.

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Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within

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Tensions and challenges in the decolonisation of academic publishing: A cross‐tabulation analysis of articles in Island Studies Journal

Tensions and challenges in the decolonisation of academic publishing: A cross‐tabulation analysis of articles in Island Studies Journal

Policing and justice in island communities

Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture

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