Islands (also islets, isles)—paradoxical spaces: absolute entities surrounded by water but not large enough to be a continent, territories, territorial; relational spaces—archipelagos, (inter)dependent, identifiable; relative spaces—bounded but porous; isolated, connected, colonized, postcolonial; redolent of the performative imaginary; vulnerable to linguistic, cultural, environmental change; ...

Vikramaditya Prakash is an Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh, India , and an MA. and Ph.D. in History ofArchitecture and Urbanism from Cornell University. His research interest is in interdisclipinary architectural culture studies, focusing on the postcolonial architecture ofSouth Asia. I speak today as a...