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42 Liverpool L. Rev. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr42 and id is 1 raw text is: Liverpool Law Review (2021) 42:1-14 https:I/doi.org/l 0.1007/si 0991-020-09259-8 Geographical Connections: Law, Islands, and Remoteness Matteo Nicolini1'2'3'4 -Thomas Perrin5 Published online: 15 October 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020 Abstract The paper introduces a special issue dedicated to cross-disciplinary research on insular condition and insularity. Situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical studies, it explores the intriguing topic of Island-ness by placing emphasis on how physical, legal, and imaginative remoteness articulates a variety of geographical connections. These reflect several issues, such as territorial (and maritime) locali- sation, insular ontology, colonial and post-colonial imaginaries. The special issue delivers both a synthetic view of these questions and opens up further perspectives for reflection. The papers examine how geographical connections trigger differ- ent legal, as well as constitutional, frameworks suitable for geographically distant islands, which, evidently, depend on how remote these islands actually are. The con- tributions survey various topics and adopt different approaches in order to ascer- tain how geographical connections and remoteness intertwine. Beyond this rich- ness of inputs, the essays reveal some common features of islands and remoteness as objects of geographical and legal representation. Besides organising society, the law arranges geographical connections so as to act as a bridge linking the reality of remoteness to an imagined alternative able of securing the governance of the above- mentioned remote societal contexts. Keywords Island Remoteness - Interdisciplinarity research - Isolation - EU cohesion policies Greek archipelagos - British overseas territories - American territories This article and the special issue pertain to the activities of the IEL (innovative education laboratory) GEOLawB, which is part of the research excellence project Law, Changes and Technology - Ministry of Education and carried out by the Law School of the University of Verona. E Matteo Nicolini matteo.nicolini @univr.it Extended author information available on the last page of the article I_) Springer