Between the Seas

Island Identities in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas

Deborah Paci (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-36039-6 (ISBN)

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In Between the Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of islandness in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. These case studies primarily include, in the Baltic case, the Åland Islands, Gotland, Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Ruhnu; and in the Mediterranean case, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica. Examining multiple sites of these islands’ identities such as history, environmental concerns and governance systems, this book provides a historical perspective into the relations between islands and the larger geopolitical regions around them, as well as historicizing ‘insularist’ rhetoric deployed by pro-independence groups within them. Paci examines the changing role and increasing political importance of islands in the European Union against the history of island insularity and offers a significant contribution to the wider field of island studies.

Deborah Paci teaches Digital Public History at the University of Bologna and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She is also Research Associate at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean of Côte d'Azur University, France, and the Institute of Island Studies of the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is the author of Corsica fatal, Malta baluardo di romanità. L’irredentismo fascista nel mare nostrum (1922-1942) (2015) and L’arcipelago della pace. Le isole Åland e il Baltico (XIX-XXI sec.) (2016).

List of illustrations
Preamble: comparing islands
Acknowledgements
Maps

Introduction
1 The Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions as spaces of
expectations
2 The views of the European Institutions on the island question
3 Insular identity in the Baltic Sea region
4 Autonomy and independence in insular Mediterranean areas
Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-350-36039-2 / 1350360392
ISBN-13	978-1-350-36039-6 / 9781350360396
Zustand	Neuware