Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands
Editat de Godfrey Baldacchino, Ritienne Gaucien Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 oct 2026
Like other geographies, peninsulas influence, but never dictate, human choices. Nineteen chapters, spanning multiple scales and disciplines, interrogate three interlocking themes: the internal divisions within peninsulas; the tensions across their isthmuses; and the engineering and political imagination that isthmuses provoke. The result is a theoretically grounded yet empirically diverse collection of works that will equip students and scholars with fresh tools for understanding how land, water and borders shape identity, territorial transformations, governance and power.
Written primarily for students and scholars of geography, geopolitics and international relations, it will also appeal to those working in political science, anthropology, history and island studies. Its global reach and accessible writing make it equally relevant to the intellectually curious general reader drawn to questions about place, identity and borders.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041298472
ISBN-10: 1041298471
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 188
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041298471
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 188
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
Foreword. Peninsular landforms: not just landscapes Editorial Introduction. The matter of peninsulas and how peninsulas matter PART I. The internal division(s) of the peninsula 1. Hammarö, Sweden - Hybrid geographies of Lake Vänern, Cultural transformations and place identity on the Hammarö peninsula 2. Iberia - Beyond the border, Reimagining identities in the Iberian Peninsula 3. Italy - ‘Clinging to the Alps’, The Italian peninsula as imaginary central European island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea 4. Korea - The Korean peninsula 5. Decca, India - The Deccan plateau, A peninsula within the Indian Subcontinent 6. Qatar/Arabia - Qatar, Geographic constraints and state behaviour on the Arabian Peninsula 7. Anatolia - Contested territory, Anatolia as myth, map, and mechanism of state power in Türkiye 8. Antarctica - The Great Peninsula of Antarctica, the Icy Continent PART II. The two sides of the isthmus 9. Europe - Securing the isthmus to the European peninsula 10. Ceuta, Spain - ‘Driven into the sea’, Peninsularity, multiculturalism, and anxiety in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in Northern Africa 11. Gibraltar - Islanding the peninsula 12. Pelješac, Croatia - On the island-peninsula dichotomy, The Croatian Pelješac peninsula 13. Crimea - Crimea, Cultural and geopolitical imaginaries PART III. The issue of the isthmus itself 14. Alaska, USA - Alaska, A complicated geography of peninsular exceptionalism 15. Prince Edward Island, Canada - “Prince Edward-used-to-be-an-Island”, (Re)Affirming an island consciousness 16. Corinth, Greece – The isthmus of Corinth, Gateway to the Peloponnesian peninsula 17. Valletta, Malta – Europe’s peninsular capital city
Notă biografică
Godfrey Baldacchino (PhD, Warwick, United Kingdom) is professor of sociology at the University of Malta, Malta. He served as Canada Research Chair and UNESCO co-chair (island studies) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He was President of the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) (2014-22). He served as Malta’s Ambassador-at-Large for Islands and Small States (2021-24). He is the founding editor of Island Studies Journal and Small States & Territories, two diamond open access journals. Author or editor of some 50 books and monographs, including The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies (2018). He is well regarded internationally as a specialist in island and small state studies.
Ritienne Gauci (PhD, Portsmouth, United Kingdom) is associate professor in geography at the University of Malta, Malta. She is Malta’s national representative for the International Association of Geomorphology (IAG). Her research focuses on physical geography, particularly coastal geology and geomorphology, erosion processes, geoheritage and hazards. She is Deputy Director of UM’s Doctoral School, an executive board member of the Malta Map Society, member of the MATSEC Geography Board of Examiners and was a founding committee member of UM’s Maritime Platform. Her research involves collaborations with various international institutions on a number of European-funded projects. She has authored more than 70 publications, including the edited volume Landscapes and landforms of the Maltese Islands (2019).
Ritienne Gauci (PhD, Portsmouth, United Kingdom) is associate professor in geography at the University of Malta, Malta. She is Malta’s national representative for the International Association of Geomorphology (IAG). Her research focuses on physical geography, particularly coastal geology and geomorphology, erosion processes, geoheritage and hazards. She is Deputy Director of UM’s Doctoral School, an executive board member of the Malta Map Society, member of the MATSEC Geography Board of Examiners and was a founding committee member of UM’s Maritime Platform. Her research involves collaborations with various international institutions on a number of European-funded projects. She has authored more than 70 publications, including the edited volume Landscapes and landforms of the Maltese Islands (2019).
Recenzii
“This fascinating book brings together a wonderfully diverse array of essays on peninsulas of widely varying scale and geographical location. Drawing on examples from the Antarctic peninsula to Alaska, and from Ceuta to the Deccan plateau, the book successfully illustrates the complex and dynamic interplay of physical landscape and human societies. With its trans-disciplinary scholarship, this book provides many interesting insights into the nature and importance of ‘almost islands’ –”
Heather A. Viles, Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Peninsulas have been oddly neglected by researchers. While the fields of Island Studies and Island Biogeography have produced extensive material on their objects of inquiry, the ‘inbetweeness’ of peninsulas – as neither islands nor mainlands – has led them to be overlooked as distinct physical and geo-social entities. This excellent volume addresses this situation by providing insightful case studies of particular locations through which peninsulas can be understood and characterised. In itself, this volume is a valuable scholarly resource, and it is likely to be impactful in stimulating further research on peninsularity.”
Philip Hayward, University of British Columbia, Canada and editor of Shima
“This book offers an impressive, multi-disciplinary body of evidence to support the notion that peninsulas are sufficiently distinctive landform units, thus warranting special consideration. The 17 peninsular cases discussed in this volume come in different sizes and from different climatic zones. Nevertheless, they demonstrate that peninsulas share a complex relationship with the surrounding sea and the mainland to which they are attached. Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands offers an innovative perspective on an important geographical landform. The book will be of particular interest to human/ cultural geographers, as well as a wider audience interested in the impact of geographical constraints on human activity and development.”
Alan Trenhaile, Professor of Geography at the University of Windsor, Canada
“Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands offers the first comprehensive exploration of the world’s great “almost islands,” revealing how these distinctive landforms shape the cultures, histories and politics of the societies that occupy them. Bringing together case studies from every continent, the book shows how peninsulas embody a creative tension between connection of land and the separation of sea. This unique spatial condition influences everything from identity to economic development in ways that echoes islands but which remains starkly different. From Europe’s to Eurasia, to the divisions of Korea, to the engineered transformations of Corinth and Prince Edward Island, each chapter illuminates how peninsula geography constrains options, shapes choices, and subtly constructs narratives. With contributions from leading scholars across disciplines, the volume reframes peninsulas as dynamic spaces where landscapes, borders, and imaginations converge, as places where geography truly matters.”
Rob Inkpen, Principal Lecturer in Geography, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
“Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands is the first comprehensive volume on the nature of the Peninsula. This is a book whose fascinating case studies offer a global review of the topic, penned by a cadre of disciplinary specialists, illustrating how domestic politics, tense international relations, and ambitious engineering projects are nuanced by ‘almost islands’. To me – and, I hope, to many others - this text is a welcome addition to my knowledge base: I had never thought of the importance of peninsulas from this angle. The volume will be a worthwhile read for those students, geographers, planners and politicians worldwide, trying to come to grips with peninsulas.”
Sunil Kumar De, President, International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG)
Heather A. Viles, Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Peninsulas have been oddly neglected by researchers. While the fields of Island Studies and Island Biogeography have produced extensive material on their objects of inquiry, the ‘inbetweeness’ of peninsulas – as neither islands nor mainlands – has led them to be overlooked as distinct physical and geo-social entities. This excellent volume addresses this situation by providing insightful case studies of particular locations through which peninsulas can be understood and characterised. In itself, this volume is a valuable scholarly resource, and it is likely to be impactful in stimulating further research on peninsularity.”
Philip Hayward, University of British Columbia, Canada and editor of Shima
“This book offers an impressive, multi-disciplinary body of evidence to support the notion that peninsulas are sufficiently distinctive landform units, thus warranting special consideration. The 17 peninsular cases discussed in this volume come in different sizes and from different climatic zones. Nevertheless, they demonstrate that peninsulas share a complex relationship with the surrounding sea and the mainland to which they are attached. Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands offers an innovative perspective on an important geographical landform. The book will be of particular interest to human/ cultural geographers, as well as a wider audience interested in the impact of geographical constraints on human activity and development.”
Alan Trenhaile, Professor of Geography at the University of Windsor, Canada
“Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands offers the first comprehensive exploration of the world’s great “almost islands,” revealing how these distinctive landforms shape the cultures, histories and politics of the societies that occupy them. Bringing together case studies from every continent, the book shows how peninsulas embody a creative tension between connection of land and the separation of sea. This unique spatial condition influences everything from identity to economic development in ways that echoes islands but which remains starkly different. From Europe’s to Eurasia, to the divisions of Korea, to the engineered transformations of Corinth and Prince Edward Island, each chapter illuminates how peninsula geography constrains options, shapes choices, and subtly constructs narratives. With contributions from leading scholars across disciplines, the volume reframes peninsulas as dynamic spaces where landscapes, borders, and imaginations converge, as places where geography truly matters.”
Rob Inkpen, Principal Lecturer in Geography, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
“Peninsulas: A Geography of Almost Islands is the first comprehensive volume on the nature of the Peninsula. This is a book whose fascinating case studies offer a global review of the topic, penned by a cadre of disciplinary specialists, illustrating how domestic politics, tense international relations, and ambitious engineering projects are nuanced by ‘almost islands’. To me – and, I hope, to many others - this text is a welcome addition to my knowledge base: I had never thought of the importance of peninsulas from this angle. The volume will be a worthwhile read for those students, geographers, planners and politicians worldwide, trying to come to grips with peninsulas.”
Sunil Kumar De, President, International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG)
Descriere
This volume offers a first comprehensive geography of peninsulas, in which 'almost islands' serve as windows onto how peninsularity shapes politics, identity, nation-building and engineering ambitions.