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Record Nr.

UNINA9911024073003321

Autore

Mela Marilena

Titolo

Assembling the Archipelago

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9781040427118

9781032854397

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 pages)

Collana

Routledge Environmental Humanities Series

Disciplina

338.927

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Thinking With Islands -- Planet in Crises -- Sustainability and Energy Transitions -- Landscape and Heritage -- From Islands to Archipelagoes -- Charting the Archipelago -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Narratives and Materialities of Sustainability On Ameland -- Brief History of the Wadden Sea as Terra Fluxus -- Historic Structures of Landscape Governance On Ameland -- Ameland Gas and Its Legacies -- The Wadden Sea as Authorized Heritage -- Becoming Sustainable: an Island Ambition -- Zonnepark Ameland -- Sustainability, Between Narrative and Island Materiality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Troubles With Wind and Landscape Consciousness On Tinos -- Islandscapes of the Aegean Over Time -- Dwelling Patterns in Tinos -- Peripheralization and Commodification of the Greek Islands -- Troubles With Wind -- "Save the Mountains, Save the Islands" -- Making Heritage in Tinos -- From Landscape Consciousness to Cosmopolitan Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 A Common World: Legacies of Community and Commons in Shetland -- The Old Rock -- The Enclosure of Commons -- Heritage and the Forging of Identities -- Oil Boom -- The Viking Windfarm as a Legacy of Disruption -- Two Alternative Energy Stories in North Yell -- The Governance of Marine Commons -- "This Is Why an Island Needs Its



Own Islanders" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 In the Shadow of the Volcanoes: Action and Inaction On the Aeolian Islands -- The Forging -- Continuity and Breaks in Lipari and Salina -- Legends and Environmental Imaginaries -- Isole Minori and the Italian South -- Heritage Planning and World Heritage -- Wind, Sun, and Fire -- Sustainability Initiatives On Salina -- Discussion: On Inaction and Action -- Notes -- Bibliography.

6 Acting With Islands -- Islands in (Geo)history -- Energy Transitions as Imaginaries of Autonomy -- Heritage and Place Identities -- Latent Landscape Heritage -- Emancipatory Uses of Heritage -- Assembling the Archipelago -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the potential of heritage to enact sustainable human-environment relationships across geographical differences. It will resonate with academics, students, policymakers and activists in heritage studies, environmental humanities, landscape studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability.