Geographical Connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness
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Geographical Connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness Matteo Nicolini1,2,3,4 · Thomas Perrin5
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Abstract The paper introduces a special issue dedicated to cross-disciplinary research on insular condition and insularity. Situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical studies, it explores the intriguing topic of “Island-ness” by placing emphasis on how physical, legal, and imaginative remoteness articulates a variety of geographical connections. These reflect several issues, such as territorial (and maritime) localisation, insular ontology, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries. The special issue delivers both a synthetic view of these questions and opens up further perspectives for reflection. The papers examine how geographical connections trigger different legal, as well as constitutional, frameworks suitable for geographically distant islands, which, evidently, depend on how remote these islands actually are. The contributions survey various topics and adopt different approaches in order to ascertain how geographical connections and remoteness intertwine. Beyond this richness of inputs, the essays reveal some common features of islands and remoteness as objects of geographical and legal representation. Besides organising society, the law arranges geographical connections so as to act as a bridge linking the reality of remoteness to an imagined alternative able of securing the governance of the abovementioned remote societal contexts. Keywords Island · Remoteness · Interdisciplinarity research · Isolation · EU cohesion policies · Greek archipelagos · British overseas territories · American territories
This article and the special issue pertain to the activities of the IEL (innovative education laboratory) GEOLawB, which is part of the research excellence project “Law, Changes and Technology” – Ministry of Education and carried out by the Law School of the University of Verona. * Matteo Nicolini [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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M. Nicolini, T. Perrin
Cross‑Disciplinary Connections: Locating Insular Remoteness in Legal Geographical Investigations The special issue “Geographical connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness” introduces a cross-disciplinary research which both editors have been conducting for the last two years. The research explores the intersections that insular remoteness exhibits in several ambits, such as legal and geographic studies, political power, fiction, and literature. Like the tiles of the roofs, these ambits reflect islands’ territorial localisation, as well as the insular societal contexts in which they are imbricated. The special issue, which addresses the intriguing topic of ‘Island-ness,’ is situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical studies. As we shall see in due course, the law interweaves with physical, legal, and imaginative remoteness, and triggers a variety of geographical connections. This reflects several topics and manifold geographical co
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