标题:Kimberly Kinder (2015) The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapesin Amsterdam. Athens, GA & London: University of Georgia Press. 208 pp.US$69.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8203-4794-3.
摘要:The contiguity of water, islands and cities is as ancient as cities themselves. Innumerable scholarsin disciplines such as history, geography and anthropology have long provided research ondiverse themes related to islands in the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Mediterranean andelsewhere. These have all been, ipso facto, island studies, even if there was no expresstheorization of the nature of islandness. The contemporary disciplines of island studies andurban island studies seek to foreground the permutations that define islands as islands, ontheir own terms. It is in this context that Kinder’s study of Amsterdam will be considered.