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2 Elaine Stratford, Godfrey Baldacchino, Elizabeth McMahon, Carol Farbotko and Andrew Harwood, ‘Envisioning the Archipelago’, Island Studies Journal 6(2), 2011, pp 113–130.
3 Elaine Stratford, ‘Imagining the Archipelago’, in M A Stephens and B R Roberts (eds), Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture, Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2017, pp 74–94.
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5 Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
6 Elizabeth McMahon, ‘The Gilded Cage: From Utopia to Monad in Australia's Island Imaginary’, in R Edmond and V Smith (eds), Islands in History and Representation, London and New York: Routledge, 2003, pp 190–202. Elizabeth McMahon, ‘Australia, the Island Continent: How Contradictory Geography Shapes the National Imaginary’, Space and Culture 13(2), 2010, pp 178–187. doi:10.1177/1206331209358224. Elizabeth McMahon, Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination, London: Anthem Press, 2016.
7 Alison Mountz, ‘The Enforcement Archipelago: Detention, Haunting, and Asylum on Islands’, Political Geography 30(3), 2011, pp 118–128. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.01.005. Alison Mountz, ‘Political Geography II Islands and Archipelagos’, Progress in Human Geography 39(5), 2014, pp 636–646. doi:10.1177/0309132514560958.
8 David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh, ‘Islands and the Rise of Correlational Epistemology in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the Trope of the “Canary in the Coalmine”’, Island Studies Journal 16(1), 2021, pp. 209–228. doi:10.24043/isj.119.
9 Mark Jackson, ‘Plastic Islands and Processual Grounds: Ethics, Ontology, and the Matter of Decay’, Cultural Geographies 20(2), 2013, pp 205–224. doi:10.1177/1474474012454998.
10 Kenneth Olwig, ‘Has “Geography” Always Been Modern?: Choros, (Non)representation, Performance, and the Landscape’, Environment and Planning A 40(8), 2008, pp 1843–1861. doi:doi.org/10.1068/a40240.
11 Philip Steinberg, ‘Of Other Seas: Metaphors and Materialities in Maritime Regions’, Atlantic Studies 10(2), 2013, pp 156–169. doi:10.1080/14788810.2013.785192.
12 Elaine Stratford, ‘Islandness and Struggles over Development: A Tasmanian Case Study’, Political Geography 27(2), 2008, pp 160–175. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.07.007.
13 Nicholas Whittaker, ‘The Island Race: Ontological Security and Critical Geopolitics in British Parliamentary Discourse’, Geopolitics 23(4), 2017, pp 954–985. doi:10.1080/14650045.2017.1390743.
14 Martin Lewis and Kären Wigan, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
15 Stratford et al., ‘Envisioning the Archipelago’.
16 Jonathan Pugh, ‘Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago’, Island Studies Journal 8(1), 2013, pp 9–24, p 11.
17 Elaine Stratford, ‘Disciplinary Formations, Creative Tensions, and Certain Logics in Archipelagic Studies’, in M A Stephens and Y Martínez-San Miguel (eds), Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp 51–64, p 20.
18 Peter Hay, ‘What the Sea Portends: A Reconsideration of Contested Island Tropes’, Island Studies Journal 8(2), 2013, pp 209–232, p 212.
19 Stratford et al., ‘Envisioning the Archipelago’.
20 Stratford et al., ‘Envisioning the Archipelago’; Stratford, ‘Imagining the Archipelago’.
21 Stratford et al., ‘Envisioning the Archipelago’.
22 Stratford, ‘Imagining the Archipelago’.
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Elaine Stratford
Elaine Stratford is a Professor of Geography at the University of Tasmania. Her recent publications include Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019), an edited collection with Kimberley Peters and Philip Steinberg, Territory Beyond Terra (also Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), and papers with Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada on the relational politics of walking (Annals of the AAG, Transactions of the IBG, and Geographical Research). Elaine is also the Editor-in-Chief of Geographical Research, the international journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania.