History and identity across small islands: a Caribbean and a personal journey

Baldacchino Godfrey ()
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Baldacchino Godfrey: Department of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta Vice-President, International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA)

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, 2013, vol. 17, issue 2, 5-11

Abstract: This paper is largely autobiographical: I chart my own intellectual journey across the history, culture and identity of so-called `small` islands, with a special reference to the Caribbean. To do so, I reflect on my own forays into literature that discussed Caribbean history and culture; my own research experience in Barbados in connection with my doctoral research; and coming up to the present with insights that have emerged in the pursuit of an island studies imagination in my professional work. The paper concludes with a calling, and a justification, for the pursuit of island studies.

Keywords: Caribbean; decolonisation; island studies; Malta; Norwell Harrigan; Virgin Islands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2478/v10288-012-0038-x

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