Between the Seas
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Author_Deborah Paci
Baltic
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Corsica
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Gotland
Hiumaa
island studies
Mediterranean
Saaremaa
Sardinia
Sicily
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- ISBN 9781350360396
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Between the Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of islandness in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. These case studies primarily include, in the Baltic case, the Åland Islands, Gotland, Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Ruhnu; and in the Mediterranean case, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica. Examining multiple sites of these islands’ identities such as history, environmental concerns and governance systems, this book 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 teaches Digital Public History at the University of Bologna and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She is also Research Associate at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean of Côte d'Azur University, France, and the Institute of Island Studies of the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is the author of Corsica fatal, Malta baluardo di romanità. L’irredentismo fascista nel mare nostrum (1922-1942) (2015) and L’arcipelago della pace. Le isole Åland e il Baltico (XIX-XXI sec.) (2016).
