Constellations of ferry (im)mobility: Islandness as the performance and politics of insulation and isolation

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-271

  Vannini, Phillip ^a  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ferries; Islands; Mobile ethnography; Mobilities; Place; Rural areas

Indexed keywords

POLITICS; RURAL AREA;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 79955057551     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474010397597     Document Type: Article

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