Island Studies Journal - Vol. 2, No. 1, May 2007

Scholarly Articles:

Pages 3 - 26: Island Archaeology: In Search of a New Horizon

Arie Boomert and Alistair J. Bright

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Pages 27 - 46: Route to Destruction? Second Home Tourism in Small Island Communities

Roger Marjavaara

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Pages 47 - 66: Malta's Tourism Policy: Standing Still or Advancing Towards Sustainability?

Rachel Dodds

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Pages 67 - 76: Isolation, Connectedness and the Uses of Text in 'Heroic Era' Antarctica: The Cases of Inexpressible and Elephant Islands

Elizabeth Leane

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Review Essays:

Pages 77 - 100: Archaeology’s Contribution to Island Studies

Scott M. Fitzpatrick

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Pages 101 - 114: Sustainable Livelihoods from Natural Heritage on Islands

Ilan Kelman

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Pages 115 - 132: Social Capital and Social Economy in Sub-National Island Jurisdictions

Barbara Groome Wynne

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Pages 133 - 140: Economic Vulnerability and Resilience of Small Island States

Te'o I. J. Fairbairn

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Book Reviews:

Pages 141 - 158: Full Book Reviews Section


Refereed Papers from the 2^nd International Small Islands Cultures Conference by Henry Johnson (editor);
(reviewer: Ron Crocombe);

Îles Funestes, Îles Bienheureuses by Gaële de La Brosse (editor);
(reviewer: Mercedes Delgado Pérez);

Environmental Planning in the Caribbean by Jonathan Pugh & Janet Henshall Momsen (editors);
(reviewer: Bruce Potter);

The Russians in Hobart 1823 by Glynn Barratt;
(reviewer: John Paull);

Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Paradoxes of Quasi-Colonialism, Local Autonomy and Extended Statehood in the US, French, Dutch and British Caribbean by Lammert De Jong & Dirk Kruijt (editors);
(reviewer: Godfrey Baldacchino);

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age, A History of Contested Identities by Nira Wickramasinghe;
(reviewer: Sagarika Dutt);

Antonio Millo Isolario;
(reviewer: Chet Van Duzer);

The Ice Museum: To Shetland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Greenland and Svalbard in search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna;
(reviewer: E Kathleen Stuart).