title: Crimea – Almost an Island?
abstract: 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 
journal: Shima