New 'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article 'Entangled Ruralities: Remaking a Portuguese Mountain Hamlet Through Craft and Translocalism' by Liliana Morais. https:/​/​doi.org/​10.24043/​001c.143258

New 'Island Studies Journal' article 'Supporting Sustainable Island Tourism Through Infrastructuring Co-Design: A Case Study From Mayu Island' by Yiying Wu & Ruiqi Yao. doi.org/10.24043/001...

New 'Island Studies Journal' article 'Principles of Repopulation Initiatives for Community Resilience: Understandings Gleaned From the Proposed Scottish Government’s Islands Bond' by Marcus W. Craigie, Margaret Currie, Paula Duffy, Lorna Philip, & Ruth Wilson. doi.org/10.24043/001...

Conference announcement: 'Supernatural animals, mystical beasts, and uncanny creatures: Folklore in place', 9-13 November 2026, Guangzhou, China -Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2026- folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3461-su... #folklore #animals #China #legends #myths

New 'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article: 'Speculative islands: Black sand, white dolphins, and a new ecological island in the South China Sea' by Benjamin K. Hodges doi.org/10.24043/001...

Conference call for papers: 'Knowing place through film and audiovisual media', 9-12 February 2026, Alta, Norway Academic conference on how films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve to represent, imagine, understand, and produce place and home. folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-kn...

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling with Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies' By Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, & Asinate Mausio islandstudiesjournal.org/article/137602

Island Studies Journal celebrates its first two decades with the publication of Volume 20, Issue 1. This issue consists of 13 articles on islands in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Atlantic, including a special section on 'Islands in speculative fiction'. islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/12263

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis' By Zafiira BeeharryYaşam Demir islandstudiesjournal.org/article/1259...

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Understanding Islandness Effects through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands' By Mei-Huan Chen doi.org/10.24043/001...

Beewolf Press is launching the diamond open access journal 'Blue Humanities' in 2026. With its roots in Asia and its editorial office in Hangzhou, the journal is dedicated to critical studies of marine, river, lake, wetland, and other water-related environments. More information coming soon!

New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place': '"I have become a warrior in the Xiang Army" : Legacies, nostalgia, and identity in Chinese regional hip-hop' By Xihuan Hu folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...

New 'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article: 'Down with the tide: How wilderness and islandness are represented in two novels from Ireland and Iceland' By Chiara Mastronardo folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...

Inaugural editorial for 'Folk, Knowledge, Place'. By Yaso Nadarajah & Adam Grydehøj doi.org/10.24043/001... "Culture, lifeworlds, and place can be mutually constitutive, and knowledge is situated. In short, knowing takes place."

New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place': 'Belonging to the land: Indigenous Māori narratives of home and place' By Cinnamon Lindsay-Latimer, Tanya Allport, Mel Potaka-Osborne, & Denise Wilson folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1257...

'Island Studies Journal', Volume 19, Issue 2 has just been published: islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/11123 15 papers on islands around the world, including special sections on 'Island transport challenges' and 'Policy-oriented research and island management'.

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Insular Perspectives of the State: Territorial Policy and Management as Seen From Guaitecas' By Álvaro Román, Katherine Bassaletti, & Javiera Larraín doi.org/10.24043/001... Guaitecas, islandness, Chile, local politics, centre-periphery dynamics, #islands

The programme is now available for the 2024 Folk, Knowledge, Place Conference, hosted by Singapore Management University's College of Integrative Studies. islanddynamics.org/2024-folk-kn...

'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article: 'Teaching Places and Teaching Place' By Michael A Lange doi.org/10.24043/001...

'Island Studies Journal' article: 'The Correlation between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses' By Yile Chen, Liang Zheng, & Jianyi Zheng doi.org/10.24043/001...

'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article: 'Moments of Silence: Ethics and Harm in Autoethnography' By Adam Grydehøj doi.org/10.24043/001...

'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-Animal Relations among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta' By Kejun Du, Xiqin Liu, Tingyu Shi, & Shuneng Zhong doi.org/10.24043/001...

Alexis Sancho Reinoso and Timothy Heleniak's paper 'Turning the Faroes Into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion' has been published in 'Island Studies Journal'. doi.org/10.24043/001...

Marco Casagrande's article 'Perceptions of Lampedusa as an Immigration Hub: Four Populations in One Small Island Place?' has been published in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place'. doi.org/10.24043/001...