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Papers by Peter Hay

Environmental Politics, 1993

Island Studies Journal, 2013

This paper argues for a shift in the focus of island-themed scholarship away from theories of isl... more This paper argues for a shift in the focus of island-themed scholarship away from theories of islandness toward an engagement with psychologies of island experience. The former project has become mired in intractable dilemmas. The present paper pursues two linked lines of observation. First, it is maintained that integral to any coherent notion of islandness is a psychology that simultaneously assimilates containment with remoteness and isolation (the latter not to be equated with disconnectedness). In some of its manifestations this psychology is pathological in character, conducive to despair, cultural and economic stagnation, and a xenophobic conservatism. In others it is enabling, conducive to resilience, resourcefulness, cultural dynamism and a can-do economics. It may also make islands unusually relevant, rather than unimportant backwaters, in the search for workable modes of living on a small and fraught planet. Second, it is contended that, if there is enough in the notion o...

Island Studies Journal, 2006

The question is posed: is a coherent theory of islandness – nissology – possible? Faultlines with... more The question is posed: is a coherent theory of islandness – nissology – possible? Faultlines within constructions of islands and islandness are noted. Some of these axes of contestation have remained latent but have the potential to be sharply divisive. Three of the identified faultlines are examined – the nature of the island ‘edge’, the import for questions of island memory and identity of massive inward and outward movements of people, and the appropriation of island ‘realness’ by those for whom ‘island’ best functions as metaphor. A case is made for the excision of the latter from the purview of island studies. Despite apparent irreconcilability within island studies’ emerging faultlines, it is argued that place theory does constitute a theoretical framing that can work for island studies. Following a brief overview of the faultlines that also exist within place studies, it is noted that the difference-respecting and identity focused nature of phenomenology of place is particularly apposite for island studies, and the paper concludes with a consideration of what a phenomenology of islands might look like.

Geographical Research, 2008

... 2000; Gee, 2001; Hillier, 2002; 2003; Lane, 2003; Lane and McDonald, 2002; Mercer, 1991; Plum... more ... 2000; Gee, 2001; Hillier, 2002; 2003; Lane, 2003; Lane and McDonald, 2002; Mercer, 1991; Plumwood, 2003; Scarff and Duus, 2005; Schirmer ... In his invaluable compendium of stories and essays, The People&amp;#x27;s Forest, Gregg Borschmann includes, from the collection of 88 oral ...

Local Environment, 2003

... heart. Dry-stone waller Ker-ron Clague, driving timber stobs in lines across the Marches, ... more ... heart. Dry-stone waller Ker-ron Clague, driving timber stobs in lines across the Marches, works essentially within this tradition and so does Scots-Gaelic poet, KevinMacNeill. And ... close. And vice versa. Kevin MacNeill About ...