%0 Journal Article
%T Envisioning the Archipelago
%A Stratford Elaine
%A Baldacchino Godfrey
%A Farbotko Carol
%A Harwood
%A Andrew
%J Island Studies Journal
%D 2011
%I University of Prince Edward Island
%X Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relations of islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island and continent/mainland. What remains largely absent or silent are ways of being, knowing and doing¡ªontologies, epistemologies and methods¡ªthat illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed: as island and island. Therefore, this paper seeks to map out and justify a research agenda proposing a robust and comprehensive exploration of this third and comparatively neglected nexus of relations. In advancing these aims, the paper¡¯s goal is to (re)inscribe the theoretical, metaphorical, real and empirical power and potential of the archipelago: of seas studded with islands; island chains; relations that may embrace equivalence, mutual relation and difference in signification.
%K archipelago
%K assemblages
%K constellations
%K island relations
%K island studies
%K method
%K repetition
%U http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-6-2-2011-Stratford-et-al.pdf