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Book Review: Handbook of cultural geography. Edited by Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift

Book Review: Handbook of cultural geography. Edited by Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and... reviews in brief even ‘Icelander’. My computer places an admonitory wiggly red line beneath this non-word. Yet it is commonly encountered in island studies, an acknowledgement that being an island denotes shared characteristics, despite variations in forms and natures. Vanessa Agnew puts it well in a section actually entitled ‘islandness’ in her chapter on Pacific island encounters and race: ‘Notwithstanding the fact that high islands such as Tahiti differed from low islands like those in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), coral islands from those without reefs, and tropical islands from those in the temperate and frigid zones, the island itself was still a topographical constant’ (p. 83). This book takes the import of this constant, depicting its operation in islands of various sizes in locales ranging from the windy blasts of the Falklands to the war- mer climes of St Lucia and Re´union. It belongs to the Routledge Research in Postco- lonial Literatures series and emanates from a conference at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Kent University (one editor, Edmond, is based there). Most authors are from English Departments, content to write for a book with a history title. This welcome multi-disciplinarity regarding island studies is further http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Handbook of cultural geography. Edited by Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift

Henderson, George
Cultural Geographies , Volume 11 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2004
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reviews in brief even ‘Icelander’. My computer places an admonitory wiggly red line beneath this non-word. Yet it is commonly encountered in island studies, an acknowledgement that being an island denotes shared characteristics, despite variations in forms and natures. Vanessa Agnew puts it well in a section actually entitled ‘islandness’ in her chapter on Pacific island encounters and race: ‘Notwithstanding the fact that high islands such as Tahiti differed from low islands like those in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), coral islands from those without reefs, and tropical islands from those in the temperate and frigid zones, the island itself was still a topographical constant’ (p. 83). This book takes the import of this constant, depicting its operation in islands of various sizes in locales ranging from the windy blasts of the Falklands to the war- mer climes of St Lucia and Re´union. It belongs to the Routledge Research in Postco- lonial Literatures series and emanates from a conference at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Kent University (one editor, Edmond, is based there). Most authors are from English Departments, content to write for a book with a history title. This welcome multi-disciplinarity regarding island studies is further

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