Representing place: "Deserted isles"and the reproduction of Bikini Atoll

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 607-625

  Davis, Jeffrey Sasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape; Nuclear testing; Place; Semiotics; Tourism

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SENSE OF PLACE;

BIKINI ATOLL; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BIKINIA;

EID: 27844437123     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Review

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