Crimea – Almost an Island?
Journal: Shima
Year: 2019

Drawing on recent debates about expanded concepts of islands and of Island Studies, this article suggests that Crimea can be regarded as "almost an island" in sociocultural, political and infra-structural terms. The article discusses Crimean historical moments and events, socio-cultural encounters and autonomies as important dimensions in the establishment of an "islandness" that extends beyond the geographical into the imaginative space. Crimean "almost-islandness" is argued to be created by a