Finding their place: Islands as locus and focus

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-165

  Ronström, Owe ^a  

^a GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diversity; Islands; Locus focus; Metaphor; Place; Representations

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; COGNITION; ISLAND; SENSE OF PLACE;

EID: 84875659655     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474012445446     Document Type: Article

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1. The core of this paper was originally presented at the conference Finding their Place: Islands in Social Theory: A Conference, Ven, Sweden, 27-30 August 2010. I thank Godfrey Baldacchino, Eric Clark and John Gillis for valuable comments on earlier versions of the paper.
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3. My translations, except the last example.
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