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Tropical Flâneuse in Ahmedabad: Flânerie as a Decolonial Act 艾哈迈达巴德的热带花椰菜:作为非殖民化法案的花椰菜

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3982

Sayani Konar, Punyashree Panda

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Vernacular Dwellings of the Rakhaine Diaspora in Bangladesh: Decoloniality, Tropicality, Hybridity 孟加拉国若开族侨民的乡土住宅:非殖民化、热带性、杂交性

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3986

Antu Das, Nur Mohammad Khan

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Tropicality and Decoloniality: Sex Tourism vs Eco Tourism on a Philippine Beach 热带性与非殖民化：菲律宾海滩上的性旅游与生态旅游

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3988

Rosemary Wiss

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Decolonial History of African Female Education and Training in Colonial Asante, 1920-1960 1920-1960年殖民地阿散蒂非洲女性教育与培训的非殖化史

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3949

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Helena Osei-Egyir

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Extraction and Environmental Injustices: (De)colonial Practices in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were 采掘与环境不公:Imbolo Mbue的《我们是多么美丽》中的殖民实践

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3970

Goutam Karmakar, R. Chetty

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Philippine philippine, or the Tropics in Cixous’s Dreaming True 菲律宾菲律宾，或西克修斯的《真梦》中的热带地区

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3973

C. Benitez, Phrae Chittiphalangsri

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Decolonizing Discourses of Tropicality: Militourism and Aloha ‘Āina in Kiana Davenport’s Novels 非殖民化的热带话语：军事旅游与基亚娜·达文波特小说中的阿洛哈

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3955

Kristiawan Indriyanto

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Decoloniality and Tropicality: Part Two 非殖民化与回归性：第二部分

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.4005

A. Lundberg, Hannah Regis, G. L. Chwala, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah, Ashton Sinamai, R. Ferrão, Sophie Chao

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Multiversal Adventure in Decolonising Education: Everything Everywhere All at Once 非殖民化教育中的多元冒险:一切事物无处不在

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3956

Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng

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Decolonial and EcoGothic Tropes in Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara的Djinn Patrol在紫线上的非殖民化和生态哥特式奖杯

eTropic Pub Date : 2023-07-23 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3977

Sanghamitra Devi, Esther Daimari

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