Archipelago Consciousnss: Rethinking the Islander Identity in a Shrinking World

In contemporary discourse, islands are often viewed as marginal—small, remote, culturally picturesque but politically peripheral. This is a mistake.

Islands, and the people who inhabit them, offer a vital epistemology. One formed not in abstraction, but in constant negotiation with geography, climate, and social interdependence. As the world confronts escalating ecological constraints, forced migration, and cultural fracturing, the island becomes less a periphery and more a prototype…