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Islands have a unique hold on our imagination as intriguing places where - as Thomas More and Jonathan Swift showed in their fiction - fantastic utopic or dystopic worlds are possible. This book highlights the idiosyncratic forms of governance that occur in places that are both a ...
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Offers an examination of the unique governance of islands and their role in contemporary global politics.
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Investigates tourism practices in the world's other, cold water, islands. This work contains 13 island case studies from the Northern and southern latitudes. It features chapters that provide insights on tourism management issues, as they apply to cold water island experiences: h ...
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Small islands often enjoy a distinct juridical personality. Many, whether fully sovereign or not, successfully deploy this gift of jurisdiction to economic advantage, offsetting the potentially adverse effects of smallness, isolation and peripherality. These legal powers, refle ...
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A thesis arguing in favour of localism and evolution. It studies constitutionalism, judicial personality and public policy as economic resources, via a comparative assessment of six North Atlantic islands, such as Iceland, Faroe Islands and the Isle of man.
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Looks at sub-national island jurisdictions. This collection examines their multi-level governance, international diplomacy, disaster management, offshoring strategies, economic development, other expressions of negotiation and engagement with larger players, especially with metro ...
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The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry creates many encounters between global agents and local forces. This study documents and discusses such a global-local encounter, based on fieldwork carried out in hotels in Barbados and Malta.
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Island Songs is a work of sonic anthropology that does more than probe song as a part of the sociocultural life on islands. It illuminates how song performs island life. Gathered here are 15 case study chapters on islands in the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Baltic, a ...
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The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry causes interaction between global agents and local forces. This book explores the clash of values inherent in the relationship between these global agents and the local workforce, and its implications for organized labour and profes ...
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