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标题：Godfrey Baldacchino (ed.) (2013) The Political Economy of Divided Islands:Unified Geographies, Multiple Polities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 256pp., £63 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-137-02312-4.
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期刊名称：Urban Island Studies
电子版ISSN：2445-6004
出版年度：2015
卷号：1
页码：187-189
出版社：Island Dynamics
摘要：This is the first collection of essays to focus on the political economy of divided islands, itsuniqueness perhaps due to the fact that there exist only ten of such contested territories worldwide.As Baldacchino explains in the introduction, the fascination for ‘divided islands’ might dependon the ways in which they challenge geo-political imagination. Whereas we simply acceptthat continents are divided and administered by several nation states, “a finite and selfevidentisland geography smoothens the nurturing of a sense of identity that is contiguouswith territory” (p. 3). Thus the very idea that an island could be divided and shared amongcompeting powers appears alien to common-sense logic.