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

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  • Baldacchino Godfrey

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

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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.

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  • Baldacchino Godfrey, 2013. "History and identity across small islands: a Caribbean and a personal journey," Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, Sciendo, vol. 17(2), pages 5-11, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:mgrsod:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:5-11:n:4
    DOI: 10.2478/v10288-012-0038-x
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