Between The Seas

Description

In Between The Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of insularity in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. These case studies include, in the Baltic case, Gotland, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa; and in the Mediterranean case, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta and Corsica. Examining multiple sites of these islands’ identities such as history, environmental concerns and governance systems, this study 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 is Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and Research Associate at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean (CMMC) of Sophia Antipolis University of Nice, France.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Island Identity: Insularity, Islandness and Insularism
Chapter 2: Autonomism and independentism in insular Mediterranean areas (1914-Present)
Chapter 3: Autonomism and insular identity in the Baltic Sea Region (1914-Present)
Chapter 4: The views of the European Institutions on the island question (1950-Present)
Chapter 5: The myth of maritime unity and Islands networks in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions
(1990-Present)
Conclusion
Index

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