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Title: | The lure of the island : a spatial analysis of power relations |
Authors: | Baldacchino, Godfrey |
Keywords: | Islands Island life Space |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Baldacchino, G. (2012). The lure of the island : a spatial analysis of power relations. Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, 1(2), 55-62. |
Abstract: | Islands – especially small ones – are now, unwittingly, the objects of what may be the most lavish, global and consistent branding exercise in human history. This paper draws on a post-structuralist perspective to propose an understanding of ‘‘the island lure’’ by disentangling and unpacking four, inter-related, constituent components of ‘islandness’. These components are themselves borrowed and adapted from a spatial analysis of power and power relations, and especially from Henri Lefebvre’s treatise on spaces of production. In its ontological approach, the paper offers a different critique of the representation of islands and island life. |
Description: | An earlier draft of this paper was presented as the keynote address at the 8th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM), Valletta, Malta, June 2009. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19486 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtSoc |
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