The relational turn in island geographies: bringing together island, sea and ship relations and the case of the Landship

Pugh, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1147064

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“…Island-mainland relationships played an important role in early island studies thinking, which emphasised territorial boundaries and borders yet was less attentive to islanders and local perspectives (Royle, 2001;Vannini & Taggart, 2012). There has developed a desire within island studies to rethink inter-island movements and relationships beyond static island/mainland binaries (Stratford et al, 2011;Pugh, 2013Pugh, , 2016Rankin, 2016). The field has undergone a 'relational turn', in line with the growing popularity of relational approaches in the broader post-structural geography and other disciplines.…”

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Relational geography of a border island: local development and compensatory destruction on Lieyu, Taiwan

Lee¹,

Huang

Grydehøj

2017

ISJ

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ABSTRACT:The paper considers Lieyu island from a relational geography perspective, relative to the islands of Kinmen, Xiamen, and Taiwan. Lieyu retains its natural landscape and military heritage in part due to its remote location and military restrictions relative to nearby Kinmen Island. Local politicians harness Lieyu's archipelagic relationality and sense of underdevelopment relative to other islands in its archipelago to gain financial subsidies for infrastructure development. Such infrastructure projects (including fixed links) endanger Lieyu's sense of islandness and island place. We introduce the term 'compensatory destruction', which involves destroying existing place-based values or attributes in the process of implementing new values in the name of development. Although compensatory destruction is not necessarily bad, care must be taken to ensure that development projects serve the needs of the community as a whole and are adequately assessed and evaluated.

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Relational geography of a border island: local development and compensatory destruction on Lieyu, Taiwan

Lee¹,

Huang

Grydehøj

2017

ISJ

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“…Jonathan Pugh (2013) has advanced this line of theorisation by pursuing a spatially sensitive, fluid, relational approach to archipelagos. As Pugh (2016Pugh ( , p. 1053 argues, it is possible to be cognisant of the attributes and distinctiveness of islands as places without denying "complex and shifting island, sea and ship relations." Philip Hayward (2012aHayward ( , 2012b has used the concepts of the 'aquapelago' and the 'aquapelagic assemblage' to explore land-sea-human interaction, thereby offering a new means of conceptualising what it means to be an islander and to engage with islands.…”

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“…When considering these literary and architectural elaborations upon island kingdoms and fairylands, it is interesting to reflect upon island studies theories regarding relationality and assemblages (e.g., Stratford et al, 2011;Pugh, 2013Pugh, , 2016Hayward, 2012aHayward, , 2012b. The symbolism and metaphorical power of this multitude of sacred Chinese islands were somehow linked to their interrelatedness, not just with the mainland but also with one another.…”

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Sacred islands and island symbolism in Ancient and Imperial China: an exercise in decolonial island studies

Luo¹,

Grydehøj²

2017

ISJ

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This paper explores conceptions of islands in Ancient and Imperial China. From at least the 3rd Century BCE, mainland Chinese culture regarded islands as sacred, unapproachable fairylands, home to the elixir of immortality. This inspired a trend for voyages in search of mythological sacred islands as well as a landscape architecture trend for constructing artificial islands in imperial palace gardens. Over time, Taoism came to associate islands with the home of the gods, and Chinese Buddhism came to associate islands with dragon kings. As China's maritime activity increased, so, too, did fiction regarding islands of adventure. These conceptions of sacred islands and islands of adventure coexisted with the use of actual islands as places of political exile. By exploring island traditions in Chinese literature, this paper adds to our knowledge of how and why people throughout history have regarded islands and archipelagos as special. This paper also pursues a decolonial island studies by challenging some of the Eurocentric and imperialistic tendencies within the research field, which have led to a privileging of Western island metaphors and understandings.

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“…Hayward's aquapelago concept has featured in ISJ (most prominently, Fleury & Johnson, 2015;Hayward, 2016a) and arose as a reaction to work within ISJ on the concept of the archipelago (Stratford et al, 2011; with subsequent contributions from, for example, Pugh, 2013a;Baldacchino & Ferreira, 2013;Brinklow, 2013;Hidalgo et al, 2015). Jonathan Pugh (2016b) has continued this engagement with the archipelago outside the pages of ISJ, pursuing a powerful relational perspective. Even urban island studies began as a special thematic section of ISJ (e.g., Grydehøj, 2014a;2014b;Picornell, 2014;Pons et al, 2014;Pigou-Dennis & Grydehøj, 2014;Swaminathan, 2014).…”

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A future of island studies

Grydehøj¹

2017

ISJ

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Island studies has developed into an established, interdisciplinary research field. It is important that island studies not only continue deepening its internal theoretical understandings but also reach out to other fields and regions that have received limited attention within island studies. It is also necessary for island studies to grapple with a number of problematic tendencies within the field and the wider scholarship, including by challenging the misuse of island spatiality to produce idealised visions of islands (for example in island sustainability research). Similarly, it is important to pursue a decolonial island studies that rethinks the ways in which island development research can end up marginalising Indigenous voices at the same time as it seeks to understand islands 'on their own terms'. Island studies, many say, is an emerging field.We live in an age that valorises dynamism and change, so it flatters our sensibilities to participate in a scholarly project that is not fixed, fusty, or static. If island studies is emerging, then we who contribute to it are at the vanguard, engaging in a new way of doing research.But this mantra of 'emergence', 'burgeoning', 'growth', 'institutionalisation' is also an apology-repeated across a range of important literature reviews and theoretical texts (e.g.,

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The relational turn in island geographies: bringing together island, sea and ship relations and the case of the Landship

Abstract: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence Newcastle University ePrints-eprint.ncl.ac.uk Pugh J. The relational turn in island geographies: bringing together island, sea and ship relations and the case of the Landship.

Cited by 78 publications

References 74 publications

Relational geography of a border island: local development and compensatory destruction on Lieyu, Taiwan

Relational geography of a border island: local development and compensatory destruction on Lieyu, Taiwan

Sacred islands and island symbolism in Ancient and Imperial China: an exercise in decolonial island studies

A future of island studies

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