The Centre for Environmental History’s Libby Robin recently published an article in Aeon Magazine on ‘island thinking’: isolation is no model for a cosmopolitan age…
An island was born on 14 November 1963. In a luminous memory from my childhood, my father has the newspaper spread over our yellow breakfast table in suburban Melbourne and announces this curious fact. Although far away in Iceland, the idea that an island could have a beginning captivated me. Solid rock transported by a submarine volcano had created new land where once there was just ocean.