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dc.contributor.authorCorbett, J
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-26T03:09:50Z
dc.date.available2020-06-26T03:09:50Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1354-5078
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/nana.12597
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/394948
dc.description.abstractSmall communities should have the most to gain from integration, but the average size of the state is shrinking as island nationalism creates new, and very small, states out of former colonies, and federalised or autonomous territories. “Islandness,” as a proxy for territory, is employed as a resource to justify secession, but mainstream studies subordinate this factor in accounts that privilege ethnic, religious, linguistic, or economic drivers of identity. This article adds to a small body of work that foregrounds territory. Drawing on an in‐depth case study of Barbuda's (population 1,600) attempt to secede from Antigua demonstrates how nationalists employ different meanings of territory—legal, cultural, and political—to make the case for secession in the absence of factors commonly theorised to drive identify formation. Barbudan secessionism therefore problematises mainstream theory. It concludes by arguing that paying greater attention to how territory acts as a resource in the nationalist imaginary allows us to re‐examine long‐standing studies and cases in new and penetrating light.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofjournalNations and Nationalism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode35
dc.titleTerritory, islandness, and the secessionist imaginary: Why do very small communities favour autonomy over integration?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCorbett, J, Territory, islandness, and the secessionist imaginary: Why do very small communities favour autonomy over integration?, Nations and Nationalism, 2020
dc.date.updated2020-06-26T03:07:37Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advanced online version.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCorbett, Jack


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