{"title":"The Royal Republic of Ladonia: A Micronation built of Driftwood, Concrete and Bytes","authors":"Vicente Bicudo de Castro, R. Kober","doi":"10.21463/SHIMA.13.1.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Royal Republic of Ladonia, the brainchild of artist Lars Vilks, is a micronation that advocates freedom of expression, supporting art and creativity. This article outlines Ladonia as the physical territory claimed in the Kullaberg peninsula in Sweden and the online community, where the government, nobles, and citizens gather. Ladonia coexists as both a physical territory and as a large and active online community, distinguishing itself from other micronations, which are either active online communities or claim small physical territories. Using Ladonia as the context, this article extends the concept of aislamiento (insularity/islandness) to show how a micronation can have coexisting and interrelated states of aislamiento.","PeriodicalId":51896,"journal":{"name":"Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Shima-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21463/SHIMA.13.1.10","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Royal Republic of Ladonia, the brainchild of artist Lars Vilks, is a micronation that advocates freedom of expression, supporting art and creativity. This article outlines Ladonia as the physical territory claimed in the Kullaberg peninsula in Sweden and the online community, where the government, nobles, and citizens gather. Ladonia coexists as both a physical territory and as a large and active online community, distinguishing itself from other micronations, which are either active online communities or claim small physical territories. Using Ladonia as the context, this article extends the concept of aislamiento (insularity/islandness) to show how a micronation can have coexisting and interrelated states of aislamiento.
期刊介绍:
Shima publishes: Theoretical and/or comparative studies of island, marine, lacustrine or riverine cultures Case studies of island, marine, lacustrine or riverine cultures Accounts of collaborative research and development projects in island, marine, lacustrine or riverine locations Analyses of "island-like" insular spaces (such as peninsular "almost islands," enclaves, exclaves and micronations) Analyses of fictional representations of islands, "islandness," oceanic, lacustrine and riverine issues In-depth "feature" reviews of publications, media texts, exhibitions, events etc. concerning the above Photo and Video Essays on any aspects of the above