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TI Science and culture in the Kerguelen Islands: a relational approach to the spatial formation of a subantarctic archipelago
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AF PRINCE, Solene
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C1 Mid Sweden Univ, Dept Tourism Studies & Geog, European Tourism Res Inst ETOUR, Ostersund, Sweden.
C2 UNIV MID SWEDEN, SWEDEN
IN DOAJ
IF 1.377
TC 1
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00441/55237/56718.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;dwelling;materiality;narrative analysis;practice;relational geography;subantarctic islands;scientific research
AB The Kerguelen Islands are devoid of a permanent population, but are nonetheless interlinked to past and current human activities that have shaped their subantarctic landscape. In the past decades, the archipelago has become a French outpost for scientific research where scientists, support staff, research assistants, and travelers assemble during temporary missions. In this article, I present the spatial formation of islands as relational in order to explore how the material and the cultural converge to make the Kerguelen Islands a place of both mundane practice and global interconnection. These spatialities intertwine the features of the landscape with pre-departure preparations, animal encounters, scientific rigour, daily routines, and past human activities. I advance these narratives by analyzing 18 blogs of French sojourners who have spent extensive time on the Kerguelen Islands. I ultimately give islands without a permanent population a character unlike that of isolation and contemplation as is usually attributed to cold-water islands of the (sub) polar seas. 
PY 2018
PD NOV
SO Island Studies Journal
SN 1715-2593
PU Univ Prince Edward Island, Inst Island Studies
VL 13
IS 2
UT 000450978800009
BP 129
EP 144
DI 10.24043/isj.63
ID 55237
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