eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3823

Denise Dillon

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Tropical Topographies: Mapping the Malarial in The Calcutta Chromosome 热带地形学:在加尔各答染色体中绘制疟疾

eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3837

Priscilla Jolly

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Earth(ing) Kashmir: Geo-Tropicality as a Means of Thinking beyond Stratified Geopolitics 地球(ing)克什米尔:地缘热带性作为一种超越分层地缘政治的思维方式

eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3844

Saswat Samay Das, Abhisek Ghosal, Ananya Roy Pratihar

引用次数: 2

Pornotopia 色情

eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3842

Jeffrey B. Javier

引用次数: 11

Portraits-in-Place from the Sotavento: A Photo-Dialogue between Abraham Bosque and J.A. Strub 索塔文托的肖像：亚伯拉罕·博斯克与J·A·斯特鲁布的摄影对话

eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3860

J. Strub, Abraham Ávila Quintero

引用次数: 0

Darkness in the Seasonal Savannah: The Brazilian Cerrado in Stories by Hugo de Carvalho Ramos 季节性萨凡纳的黑暗：雨果·德·卡瓦略·拉莫斯故事中的巴西塞拉多

eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3849

André Vasques Vital, Sandro Dutra e Silva

{"title":"Darkness in the Seasonal Savannah: The Brazilian Cerrado in Stories by Hugo de Carvalho Ramos","authors":"André Vasques Vital, Sandro Dutra e Silva","doi":"10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3849","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the feelings that emerge in savannah landscapes, specifically in the Brazilian savannah (Cerrado), through the short stories Dias de Chuva and Gente da Gleba, by the writer Hugo de Carvalho Ramos (1895—1921). The two stories, which are part of the collection Tropas e Boiadas (1917), contain traces of Tropical Gothic literature. The Cerrado landscape is marked by climatic seasonality that manifests itself in two well-defined seasons: humid summers (where there is plenty of rain) and dry winters (with no rain and the incidence of large fires). In the analyzed works, blue and red are considered fundamental colours that help us understand the sentiments that mark the landscape in each season. It is suggested that yearnings and expectations about the future are feelings strongly manifested in the wet season and are associated with the processes of gestation and dissolution of life promoted by water. Fears and regrets, on the other hand, emerge with more force in the face of the destructiveness of fire in the dry season, under the red that dominates the landscape. Loneliness and indifference are two feelings that are omnipresent in both seasons and manifest as blue and red indifference.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49071432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Pacific Seascapes of the Anthropocene: Changing Human-Nature Relationships in Jeff Murray’s Melt 人类世的太平洋海景:杰夫·默里的《融化》中不断变化的人与自然关系

eTropic Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3851

T. Bose, Punyashree Panda

引用次数: 1

Rain in the Basilica: Protecting Goa’s Bom Jesus from the Ravages of Climate Change 教堂里的雨:保护果阿邦的耶稣免受气候变化的破坏

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3814

Vishvesh Kandolkar

{"title":"Rain in the Basilica: Protecting Goa’s Bom Jesus from the Ravages of Climate Change","authors":"Vishvesh Kandolkar","doi":"10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3814","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last century, monsoons in Goa have become more intense, with an increase of over 68% in rainfall (Goa State Biodiversity Board, 2019, p. 42). Such effects of climate change are devastating to architectural heritage, especially those structures built using materials like laterite, a weaker stone, vulnerable to rapid deterioration when it is left exposed. This is the precise problem concerning the Basilica of Bom Jesus, a sixteenth century building that is still in use. The monument which houses the relics of St. Francis Xavier is one of the most important cultural icons of Goa, as evidenced by its ongoing use and also its iconic representation in visual culture. While research may be available regarding the effects of climate change and architecture in the tropics generally, little pertains to the specificities of Indo-Portuguese architecture and especially heritage buildings. My article seeks to make an intervention in this regard, focusing on the effects of climate change with regard to the conservation of Bom Jesus. Considering the adverse effects of climate change on built heritage, architectural conservation in Goa cannot be merely about preserving cosmetic appearances, but rather must involve safeguarding monuments against major structural damage. ","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43928642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Climate Change and Ecocide in Sierra Leone: Representations in Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones and The Memory of Love 塞拉利昂的气候变化和生态灭绝:在Aminatta Forna的祖先之石和爱的记忆中的表现

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3812

Shruti Das, Deepshikha Routray

{"title":"Climate Change and Ecocide in Sierra Leone: Representations in Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones and The Memory of Love","authors":"Shruti Das, Deepshikha Routray","doi":"10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3812","url":null,"abstract":"War has been instrumental in destroying land and forests and thus is a major contributor to climate change. Degradation due to war has been especially significant in Africa. The African continent, once green, is now almost denuded of its rich forests and pillaged of its precious natural resources due to the brutality of colonisation and more recent postcolonial civil wars. In Sierra Leone the civil war continued for over eleven years from 1991 to 2002 and wrought havoc on the land and forests. Thus the anxiety and trauma suffered by the people not only includes the more visible aspects of human brutality, but also the long lasting effects of ecocide which relate to climate change. Underlying narratives that address traumatic ecological disasters is a sense of anxiety and depression resulting from the existential threat of climate change. This paper demonstrates how narratives can metaphorically represent both ecocide and climate change and argues that such stories help people in tackling the real life stresses of anxiety and trauma. To establish the argument this paper has drawn on scientific and sociological data and placed these vis-à-vis narrative episodes in Aminatta Forna’s novels Ancestor Stones (2006) and The Memory of Love (2010). In these novels Forna depicts the ecological crisis that colonisation and civil war have wrought on Sierra Leone. The anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder – of war and ecocide – suffered by the fictional Sierra Leonean characters are explained through Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory. ","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41733157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses 热带想象与气候危机:拥抱相关气候话语

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3803

A. Lundberg, André Vasques Vital, Shruti Das

{"title":"Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses","authors":"A. Lundberg, André Vasques Vital, Shruti Das","doi":"10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3803","url":null,"abstract":"In this Introduction, we set the Special Issue on 'Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis' within the context of a call for relational climate discourses as they arise from particular locations in the tropics. Although climate change is global, it is not experienced everywhere the same and has pronounced effects in the tropics. This is also the region that experienced the ravages – to humans and environments – of colonialism. It is the region of the planet’s greatest biodiversity; and will experience the largest extinction losses. We advocate that climate science requires climate imagination – and specifically a tropical imagination – to bring science systems into relation with the human, cultural, social and natural. In short, this Special Issue contributes to calls to humanise climate change. Yet this is not to place the human at the centre of climate stories, rather we embrace more-than-human worlds and the expansion of relational ways of knowing and being. This paper outlines notions of tropicality and rhizomatics that are pertinent to relational discourses, and introduces the twelve papers – articles, essays and speculative fiction pieces – that give voice to tropical imaginaries and climate change in the tropics.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43960287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

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