![]() ![]() Malgrat tot, les insularitats encara avui segueixen en bona part sotmeses a imatges externes imposades. Resum La construcció territorial del concepte d'insularitat fou una de les primeres formes de dominació abans de l'arribada del revisionisme postcolonial centrat en la introducció del concepte complex d'arxipèlag. Further research themes for STS are suggested in the Conclusion. The special section offers empirical case studies with insights into islands as a synecdoche for larger wholes (the Earth), as experimental and exceptional sites for trialing business creation and political orders (in Singapore, and for Asia), and as variously interpreted laboratory paradise (of Hawai'i). Such an approach explores the co-constitutive dynamic of islands as sites for the foundation of technoscientific knowledge regimes, and the concomitant rendering of islands as conducive places for discovery and experimentation. The introduced concept of Island Imaginaries captures the mutual constitution of island visions and their materialization in scientific, technological and technocratic endeavors that are imagined and pursued by scientific communities, policymakers, and other social collectives. Bringing together science and technology studies (STS) with critical Island Studies and related fields, this special section expands upon the spatial dimension of sociotechnical imaginaries to consider islands and their imaginations as both preexisting and channelling visions of science and technology. Likewise, the metaphor of the island is foundational to Western thought yet has been less explored in the context of scientific processes and technology development. The climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic have contributed to a predominant view of islands as both exceptional spaces and testbeds to be scaled up onto continental or planetary levels. Colonial empires, scientists, philanthropists and Hollywood studios have long sustained an image of islands as remote places with unique ecologies and cultures, experimental labs, or loci of escapism.
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