ISJ-Rationale and Call for Papers

Welcome to Island Studies Journal: a web-based, freely downloadable, open access, peer reviewed, electronic journal that publishes papers ...

• advancing and critiquing the study of issues affecting or involving islands;
• reviewing, surveying, or providing a fresh perspective on existing and upcoming ‘island studies’ literature;
• promoting and supporting the comparative study of islands, or of issues, policies and developments thereof;
• seeing islands as part of complex systems of regional or global interaction and therefore also focusing on ‘island-mainland’ relations and comparisons;
• disseminating island-based and island-tested best practices that may be proposed, adopted or adapted by island communities, entrepreneurs, governments or civil society associations;
• encouraging the development of island studies, this being the inter-disciplinary and pluri-disciplinary study of islands on their own terms;
• reviewing books, monographs and other educational initiatives which purport to contribute to island knowledge;
• developing an audience for island studies scholarship and a reputable platform for the growing scholarly community interested in island studies: including teachers, researchers, community representatives, students and public policy officials who are interested in, hail from, live on, or work on, islands… as well as islanders generally.