'Jolly Good Show. Like The Coral Island' -- Golding's Lord Of The Flies in the Perspective of Law and Literature. The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law -- Bacon's New Atlantis and the Crisis of Western Liberalism -- The Unbelievable History of Rose Island, a Micronation -- Humanistic Enchantment: A Durational Reading of Imagined Adaptations -- Aldous Huxley's Island(ness): Politics and Ecology -- Common Law, Environmental Titles, and Remote Islands in Times of Climate Change -- J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and the Island of the Self -- Islands and Territorial Cooperation in the European Union: Overview and Outlooks -- A Geopolitical Study of the Mediterranean Insularity: Islands as Outposts of the European Union on the Most Intense Fracture Line in the World -- Faraway, so Close: Islands and Constitutional Remoteness in the Nordic Countries -- From Islands-of-Islands to the Archipelago: Re-appropriating Relatedness in the Belep Islands (Kanaky-New Caledonia) -- In Memory of Madama Butterfly: An Insular View on an International Convention -- 'Jolly Good Show. Like The Coral Island' -- Golding's Lord Of The Flies in the Perspective of Law and Literature.
Summary:
"This collection explores the heterogeneous places we have traditionally been taught to term 'islands.' It stages a conversation on the very idea of 'island-ness', thus contributing to a new field of research at the crossroads of law, geography, literature, urban planning, politics, arts, and cultural studies. The contributions to this volume discuss the notion of island-ness as a device triggering the imagination, triggering narratives and representations in different creative fields; they explore the interactions between legal, socio-political, and fictional approaches to remoteness and the 'state of insularity, ' policy responses to both remoteness and boundaries on different scales, and the insular legal framing of geographical remoteness"--Publisher's description
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