From Island Studies Journal, a special issue on Island Cities. Alison Mountz (Wilfrid Laurier): Political Geography II: Islands and Archipelagos. Mark A. Moberg (South Alabama): Certification and Neoliberal Governance: Moral Economies of Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean. Martin Delgado, Zuzanna Koltowska, Felix Madrazo and Sofia Saavedra on touring the cruise industry of the Caribbean. “De beach belong to we”: Christine Toppin-Allahar on socio-economic disparity and islanders’ rights of access to the coast in a tourist paradise. Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated place on Earth, wants a radical redesign. “Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?”: Adoption is embraced in the Marshall Islands, but in the Ozarks, it means something very different — Kathryn Joyce on the tragic consequences of cultural misunderstanding. The Marshall Islands, a small country that gained independence from the U.S. in 1986, will almost definitely have to rely on the U.S. to retrieve a cargo ship flying its flag that was commandeered by Iran's Navy, apparently in Iranian waters. Scott Beauchamp on the Marshall Islands, the most contaminated place in the world. The tiny island nation of Nauru, an eight-square-mile speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was once one of the richest countries in the world, with a phosphate industry accounting for 80% of its economy — but around the year 2000, everything changed. Phil Edwards on how the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped. Margaret Smith on the once and future island.
