Financialisation, sustainability and the right to the island: a critique of acronym models of island development

摘要: The penetration of financialization into the biocultural geographies islands builds upon processes commodification and privatization environments, entailing enclosures resource commons, environmental destruction displacement people, their livelihoods, knowledge practices, with implications for sustainability. Against this background I critique growing literature on acronym models island development, arguing more careful consideration issues concerning democracy, human rights Drawing ‘right to city’ literature, highlight importance island’ in an effort move beyond policy imperatives MIRAB, SITE PROFIT. Exercising right involves cultivating radically pluralistic democracy through struggles alternative futures. In so doing it problematizes what means develop achieve