Meaning of islandist | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to or characteristic of islandism.

Examples

“Islandist assumptions remained dominant as late as 1911, when the third Home Rule Bill was drawn up.”

“Plus, Johnson said, in a blatant appeal to islandist sympathies: “It's not like I'm a weekender.””

“Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.”

“These islandist narratives have found political expression in resistance movements such as Maasina Rule that emerged on Malaita in the aftermath of the Second World War and was violently repressed by colonial authorities (Akin 2013), and the Moro Movement on the Weather Coast, a "proto-nationalist, anti-colonial movement" with a back-to-kastom agenda, that continues to be influential in the southern and central regions of Guadalcanal (Kabutaulaka 2992b, p. 59).”

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