eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3772

Kaila Witkowski, J. Vertovec, Natália Marques Da Silva, Raymond K. Awadzi, Farah Yamini, N. Varas-Díaz, M. Padilla, Sheilla L. Rodríguez-Madera, Armando Matiz Reyes, Matthew D. Marr

{"title":"Miami in Transformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Participatory Visual Culture Analysis","authors":"Kaila Witkowski, J. Vertovec, Natália Marques Da Silva, Raymond K. Awadzi, Farah Yamini, N. Varas-Díaz, M. Padilla, Sheilla L. Rodríguez-Madera, Armando Matiz Reyes, Matthew D. Marr","doi":"10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3772","url":null,"abstract":"While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, Miami, Florida is one example of the specific and unique ways in which this pandemic is experienced. Drawing on the concepts of visual culture analysis and disaster literature, this article analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the everyday lives of people living in this subtropical American city. Specifically, this study draws on data collected from a digital participatory photography project implemented in July 2020, as the novel coronavirus began to rapidly spread. Through an inductive thematic analysis of participants’ photographs and captions, we discovered that the COVID- 19 pandemic transformed not only basic daily needs but also lead to recognition of privilege and an awareness of the needs and vulnerabilities of others. While many of the complexities illustrated in this study are left unresolved, the photos and captions are useful examples of how visual depictions can be used to inform and realign the ways in which people interpret and respond to global public health crises.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"97 3","pages":"157-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41271373","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: 2

Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics: Critical Inquiries from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 大流行、瘟疫、瘟疫和热带:来自艺术、人文和社会科学的批判性探究

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3802

A. Lundberg, Kalala Ngalamulume, Jean Segata, A. A. Termizi, Chrystopher Spicer

{"title":"Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics: Critical Inquiries from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences","authors":"A. Lundberg, Kalala Ngalamulume, Jean Segata, A. A. Termizi, Chrystopher Spicer","doi":"10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3802","url":null,"abstract":"The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical diseases which lead to (racialised) changes in urban planning. The Tropics as a region of pandemic, plague and pestilence has been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus did not (simply) originate in the tropics, nor have peoples of the tropics been specifically or exclusively infected. The papers collected in this Special Issue disrupt the imaginary of pandemics, plague and pestilence in association with the tropics through critical, nuanced, and situated inquiries from cultural history, ethnography, cultural studies, science and technology studies, Indigenous knowledge, philosophy, anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, literature and film analyses, and expressed through distinctive academic articles, poetry and speculative fiction.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43529161","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

Making Sense of Pandemic COVID-19 and its Affect(abilities) in the Indian Context 在印度背景下理解COVID-19大流行及其影响(能力)

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3780

Abhisek Ghosal

{"title":"Making Sense of Pandemic COVID-19 and its Affect(abilities) in the Indian Context","authors":"Abhisek Ghosal","doi":"10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3780","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to reflect on pandemic COVID-19 and its diverse affect(abilities) in the context of India. After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in India, the government resorted to a number of restrictive measures including quarantine, lockdown, self-isolation, and self-monitoring in order to contain the rapid spread of the new virus. This article argues that the pandemic has rendered “historical ruptures” to the world at large, and seeks to examine how it has affected the ‘usual’ ways of living of marginalised people in India, including how migrant labourers have had to strive to come to terms with the dreadful consequences of the pandemic. Furthermore, this article puts into focus how certain governmental measures are brought into effect to check the affect(abilities) of COVID-19. In order to elaborate on these affect(abilities) certain critical philosophical standpoints are drawn. In the opening section, bio-philosophical nuances of illness are expounded. These are followed, in the second section, by a discussion of neuroeconomical aspects of these affect(abilities). In the third section, theoretical notions of potentiality, singularity, and transpolitical becomings are examined through Continental philosophies. Finally, particularities of the Indian context are critically elucidated in the context of affect(abilities) of pandemic COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"20 1","pages":"115-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46179850","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: 1

COVID-19: Learning from Past Funding Initiatives and their Dismissal in Southeast Asia 2019冠状病毒病:从东南亚过去的资助举措及其失败中吸取教训

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3784

R. Sciortino

引用次数: 1

Tropicality and the Choc en Retour of Covid-19 and Climate Change 热带和2019冠状病毒病与气候变化的回归

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3787

Daniel Clayton

{"title":"Tropicality and the Choc en Retour of Covid-19 and Climate Change","authors":"Daniel Clayton","doi":"10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3787","url":null,"abstract":"This article reads ‘pandemic, plague, pestilence and the tropics’ through Covid-19, climate change and the discourse of tropicality. It asks: What happens, as seems to be the case today, when the temperate/tropical oppositions around which tropicality revolves start to unravel because the aberrations and excesses (here of epidemic disease and extreme weather) hitherto deemed to belong to tropical areas, and as constitutive of their otherness, are found in temperate ones? This question is broached with a focus on the United Kingdom as one such ‘temperate’ place that currently finds itself in this situation (although the argument has broader resonance), and with Aimé Césaire’s ideas about the choc en retour (boomerang effect) of Western colonisation and la quotidienneté des barbaries (the daily barbarisms) by which this effect works. Evidence and feelers from science, theory, politics, and the media are used to consider how sensibilities of tropicality, and especially (as Césaire enquired) distinctions between the ‘normal’ and ‘pathological,’ and ‘immunity’ and ‘susceptibility,’ permeate the way Covid-19 and climate change are perceived and felt in the temperate world.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"20 1","pages":"54-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583594","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: 10

Re-thinking Urban Planning for Singapore’s Extended Lifespan Population of 2050: A League of Its Own 新加坡2050年延长寿命人口的城市规划再思考:一个自己的联盟

eTropic Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3744

Andrea Yew

{"title":"Re-thinking Urban Planning for Singapore’s Extended Lifespan Population of 2050: A League of Its Own","authors":"Andrea Yew","doi":"10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3744","url":null,"abstract":"The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Organization’s Healthy Aging and Age Friendly Environment are comprehensive guidelines in ascertaining global standards for betterment of aging populations. However, as an economically established and highly organised city-state, Singapore has its own separate set of criteria regarding successful aging. This paper explores the contexts of living, working, and playing in Singapore’s current 65 and over population and the population over the age of 65 by 2050. The study demonstrates that these elderly life contexts are not only dissimilar to those on which the UN and WHO guidelines are based, but are uniquely Singaporean. These life, work and play contexts of an aging population also generate a new set of criteria that impact the model in urban planning and design for the tropical island-state. In this paper I argue that Singapore’s current 65 and over population is not the typical aging population, but one characterised by an extended lifespan with autonomy, employability, and vitality. These characteristics will be even more prominent for the country’s over the age of 65 by 2050 population, which will be comprised of the current Gen X and Millennials. To maintain sustainability and adaptability, urbanisation strategies in Singapore need to take into consideration these different generations of an aging population, which necessitate that planning and design recognise sets of criteria unique to each generation.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"19 1","pages":"249-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42774414","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

Singapore ‘A Land Imagined’: Rising Seas, Land Reclamation and the Tropical Film-Noir City 新加坡“想象中的土地”：海平面上升、填海造地与热带电影《黑城》

eTropic Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3739

A. Lundberg, J. Peer

引用次数: 5

Vertical Farming: An Assessment of Singapore City 垂直农业:对新加坡城市的评估

eTropic Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3745

Jacob Wood, Caroline Wong, Swathi Paturi

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引用次数: 17

Urban Design and Economic Growth: An Analytical Tale of Two Tropical Cities 城市设计与经济增长:两个热带城市的分析故事

eTropic Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3741

Taha Chaiechi, Caroline Wong, S. Tavares

{"title":"Urban Design and Economic Growth: An Analytical Tale of Two Tropical Cities","authors":"Taha Chaiechi, Caroline Wong, S. Tavares","doi":"10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3741","url":null,"abstract":"Federal and local governments around the world usually hail urbanisation as a sign of economic progress. However, the relationship is not that simple. The existence of agglomeration economies does not mean that urbanisation will directly result in positive economic outcomes. Also, there is significant diversity in urban growth patterns, with each pattern resulting in different economic and social outcomes. The diversity in patterns of urban growth and transformation implies that different economies can grow at different speeds in achieving socioeconomic goals. This study explores the urban development of two tropical cities – Cairns and Singapore – with a focus on their different urban growth patterns. Cairns is an expanding tropical Australian city located far from main urban centres, meaning it needs attention to foster positive change that will produce distinctive urban spaces which improve quality of life while providing economic growth opportunities. The city of Singapore is a tropical island-state situated near the equator with limited land and natural resources, and one of the largest urban populations in Southeast Asia. Its landscapes are constantly changing as urban planning plays a key role in formulating and guiding the physical terrains of modern Singapore, thereby shaping the quality of life of its population.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"19 1","pages":"172-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48094460","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: 2

Tropicality of Colonial Heritage Buildings in a Deltaic Landscape: British Colonial Architecture in Khulna 三角洲景观中殖民遗产建筑的回归性——库尔纳的英国殖民建筑

eTropic Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3762

Muhaiminul Islam, Hasan Muntasir

{"title":"Tropicality of Colonial Heritage Buildings in a Deltaic Landscape: British Colonial Architecture in Khulna","authors":"Muhaiminul Islam, Hasan Muntasir","doi":"10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3762","url":null,"abstract":"During the 17th-18th century colonial period on the Indian subcontinent, British colonial architecture flourished – including in the Bengal Delta. Although colonial architecture was inherently different from the traditional architecture of this tropical region, the monsoon climate and deltaic landscape forced colonial style buildings to incorporate a number of tropical architectural features to ensure climatic comfort. In the contemporary period, due to pressure from population density, many colonial buildings have been demolished and replaced with multi-story buildings. However, the tropical forces of this deltaic region need to be evaluated in order to re-create climate responsive architecture. This study aims to identify tropical architectural features inherent within colonial buildings of Khulna, Bangladesh, a city which formed a junction in the deltaic region during the colonial period. Four colonial buildings have been selected as case studies: two residential buildings, one mixed-use building, and a school. Tropical features were analysed from photographic data, and reproductions of plans and sections of the selected buildings, in order to reveal the significant tropical architectural features of these colonial period buildings. The case studies reveal structural and design elements that aided ventilation and air flow, and controlled solar radiation, humidity and driving rain. The findings aim to encourage practicing architects to rethink climate responsiveness in contemporary buildings in Bangladesh, by revealing how, a century ago, colonial buildings were influenced by the tropical deltaic climate, which impacted foreign architectural ideology and practice.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"19 1","pages":"72-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47386421","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: 1

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