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{"title":"Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian Occupation. HafsaKanjwal. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2023, pp. 384. ISBN 978‐1‐503‐63603‐3 (pbk).","authors":"Duncan McDuie‐Ra","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140032895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush. Michael B.Dwyer. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, USA, 2022, pp. xv + 230. ISBN 978‐0‐295‐75049‐1 (pbk).","authors":"Christian C. Lentz","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140002513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fire governance research in the tropics: A configurative review and outline of a research agenda","authors":"Christoph Neger, Claudia María Monzón-Alvarado, Louise Guibrunet","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12534","url":null,"abstract":"Fire is a highly relevant governance challenge in the tropics: altered fire regimes, among other phenomena, threaten the persistence of various ecosystems. Fire is also widely used by smallholders. Yet, wildfires can put people's livelihoods in danger through direct damages and by impoverishing ecosystem services. Conventional approaches have sought to suppress any type of fire in the landscape. However, since the late twentieth century, researchers and practitioners have recognized the benefits of strategic fire use and, in some cases, of local fire use traditions. In many tropical areas, the coexistence and interaction of the conventional (‘suppression-only’) approach, integrated approaches, and communities’ traditional ways of using fire, create a complex network of actors with different interests and outlooks. The ways these actors make decisions and interact can be summed up under the notion of fire governance. There is a growing body of literature dealing with this kind of situations, although they do not always mention the term governance. This paper thematically analyses 38 studies in this field, showing that research has been scattered and often addresses the issue partially, leaving out key aspects of environmental governance. Based on this analysis, the paper proposes a more connected and holistic research agenda.","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139926881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bricolage or breakthrough? Entrepreneurial responses to tourism development in a regional tourism destination","authors":"Yoshi Abe, Tod Jones, Piotr Niewiadomski, Thor Kerr","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12532","url":null,"abstract":"The Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) framework contributes to the study of tourism destination evolution by focusing on the various circumstances and events through which tourism destinations develop over long periods of time. Our research objective is to investigate how players in tourism destinations shape development pathways when they face stagnant or lock-in situations. Applying the concepts of path dependence and path creation, we explain how path shaping mechanisms such as bricolage (the process of combining available resources to create innovative outcomes) and breakthrough (a process where actors attempt to generate dramatic outcomes to deviate from existing pathways) occur using two destinations in the two regencies of the Toraja region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, as a case study. Understanding cultural tourism destination pathways requires frameworks capable of interrogating ethno-political structures and histories and assessing how they influence developmental pathways that generate regional transformations. Our investigation indicates: strong path dependence in tourism, due to cultural, political, and economic conditions, inhibits breakthrough development; that the strength of path dependence at a regional level strongly influences the path shaping processes at the firm level; and that a breakthrough developmental process in tourism does not exclude bricolage.","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139927133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantum Black creative geographies: embodiment, coherence and transcendence in a time of climate crisis†","authors":"Patricia Noxolo","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12531","url":null,"abstract":"This paper brings together three parallel strands of work—Black Geographies, geographies of Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies. The paper begins by considering static linear spacetimes as colonial spacetimes, and draws on Michelle Wright's critique of Middle Passage epistemologies, from Black Studies, to elaborate on this. It then moves through a number of ways in which, over the last couple of decades, I have drawn together insights from Wilson Harris and Karen Barad to explore how quantum mechanics can facilitate a conversation about uncertainty, connectedness, entanglement and the liveliness of always already climate-changed landscapes in relation to Black embodiment. In pushing briefly into string theory, the paper ends with the possibility of connecting spirituality with materialities, to push towards more politically attuned forms of emancipation.","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"169 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139926875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hilly terrain and housing wellness: Geo-visualizing spatial dynamics of urban household quality in the Himalayan town of Darjeeling, India","authors":"Subham Roy, Suranjan Majumder, Arghadeep Bose, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12533","url":null,"abstract":"Darjeeling, renowned as the ‘<i>Queen of the Himalayas</i>’, is one of the high-altitude towns in India, distinguished by its exceptional topography and picturesque landscape. Given the challenges posed by limited land availability, susceptibility to natural hazards, and the need for context-specific housing interventions in such hilly terrains, understanding housing conditions becomes paramount. Thus, this research explores the spatial patterns and heterogeneity of urban housing wellness in Darjeeling's hilly urban centre. A comprehensive assessment was conducted utilizing 15 key indicators. Three principal indices were formulated: Residence Quality, Residence Essential Services, and Residence Asset &amp; Possession, culminating in the Urban Housing Wellness Index (UHWI). The index construction employed the Geographically Weighted Principle Component Analysis (GWPCA) technique. In further analysis, Univariate Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) were used to determine clustering and spatial dependence, while Moran's I was utilized to gauge the spatial autocorrelation of housing conditions. A notable clustering pattern and spatial autocorrelation was observed in the urban housing wellness of the study area. The present study offers novel insights into the intricate dynamics of housing conditions in unique hilly terrains.","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139762942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Long term (1901−2021) trends and prediction of climatic variability in selected agro-ecological zones of Himachal Pradesh using coupled statistical and machine learning approaches","authors":"Swati Thakur, Manish Kumar, Akash Tiwari, Ankur Yadav, Tamanna Soni, Dinesh Kumar Tripathi","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12530","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the trends of changing climatic elements in the hydrological regime of the Indian Himalayan Region with specific focus on Agro-ecological zone II &amp; III of Himachal Pradesh for the period of 1901−2021. The upper, middle, and lower catchment areas of Sutlej River Basin were studied to reveal regional trends in climatic parameters. The Mann-Kendall test and Sen Slope analysis were used to estimate annual and seasonal trends and their magnitude. The results showed a significant decreasing trend in the lower catchment area, with a break point year estimated to be 1953 for the entire basin. Two blocks of analysis, 1901−1953 and 1954−2021, showed significant variations. Annual rainfall data revealed a statistically significant decreasing trend at different stations. The lower catchment area received a significant increase in rainfall compared to higher altitude stations. In terms of seasonal variation, the pre-monsoon season showed a significant decrease, while the entire basin recorded a significant increase in average monthly temperature. The study concludes by generating future time series predictions using an ANN model for the period of 2022−2050. Overall, the study's findings indicate a significant change in climatic variables with signs of increasing monthly temperatures and decreasing annual rainfall.","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139657960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Tropical Connections and Traumas","authors":"James D. Sidaway, TC Chang, Chen-Chieh Feng, Xi Xi Lu, Godfrey Yeung","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12528","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Since 2013, the &lt;i&gt;Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography&lt;/i&gt; awards annual prizes (each of whose authors receive USD 1000—shared in the case of co-authorship) for the best paper by a graduate student (where the lead author is a graduate student) and the best overall paper. Members of the journal's wider Editorial Board, who independently read papers short-listed by us, the editors, made the final selection of the winning papers. We are pleased to announce the winners (and runners up) of the 2023 awards are: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;\u0000&lt;div tabindex=\"0\"&gt;\u0000&lt;table&gt;\u0000&lt;thead&gt;\u0000&lt;tr&gt;\u0000&lt;th&gt;Category&lt;/th&gt;\u0000&lt;th&gt;Best graduate student paper&lt;/th&gt;\u0000&lt;th&gt;Best overall paper&lt;/th&gt;\u0000&lt;/tr&gt;\u0000&lt;/thead&gt;\u0000&lt;tbody&gt;\u0000&lt;tr&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;Winning paper&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;Framing China's tropics: Thermal techno-politics of socialist tropical architecture in Africa (1960s − 1980s)&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zhijian Sun&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen Taylor, Laurent Mavinga and Moise Bashiga&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;/tr&gt;\u0000&lt;tr&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;Other shortlisted papers&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ebb and flow of capital in Indonesian coastal production systems&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yunie N. Rahmat and Jeff Neilson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;/tr&gt;\u0000&lt;tr&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;Letting failure be: COVID-19, PhD fieldwork and to not (want to) learn from failures&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chayanika Saxena&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;\u0000&lt;/tr&gt;\u0000&lt;/tbody&gt;\u0000&lt;/table&gt;\u0000&lt;/div&gt;\u0000&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\u0000&lt;/div&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;div&gt;As per last year (see Sidaway &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;), the award-winning paper with a graduate student author cuts across environmental and human geographies, whist developing an original case study of tropical architecture, a theme that also featured in a special issue of the &lt;i&gt;SJTG&lt;/i&gt; over a decade ago (Chee &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;., &lt;span&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;). In turn, ‘tropical architecture’ connects with the journal's long-standing concerns with actions, boundaries, discourses and visons of tropicality (Driver &amp; Yeoh, &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;; Sidaway &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;., &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). The prize-winning paper, by NUS Department of Architecture doctoral student, Zhijian Sun (&lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;: 51): &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;examines how the techno-politics of China and the Soviet-bloc's socialist tropical architecture differently reconfigured thermal exchanges between the environment, human body and a series of other multi-scalar things in Africa during the 1960s−1980s.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\u0000&lt;/blockquote&gt;\u0000&lt;/div&gt;\u0000&lt;div&gt;Focused on the decades after the Sino-Soviet split of 1961 yielded what Jeremy Friedman (&lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;) termed a &lt;i&gt;Shadow Cold War&lt;/i&gt;, Sun's paper speaks also to contemporary debates about climate change, architectural design air-conditioning and welfare (themes considered too in the paper by Rituraj Neog, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;, in this issue). Hence Sun (&lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;: 534) concludes by asking: &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;how did the narrow understandings of thermal comfort become so globally dominant? How did their underlying techno-politics and thermal ","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139495089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The War on Gaza, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), and a Palestinian literary event","authors":"Mark Griffiths, Sarah Hughes, Olivia Mason, Aya Nassar, Nicole Printy Currie","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12527","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Mindful that the &lt;i&gt;Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography&lt;/i&gt; (SJTG) has previously declared that ‘the &lt;i&gt;SJTG&lt;/i&gt; hopes to publish more scholarship on the past, present and future geographies of decolonization and the decolonization of geography. We encourage submissions…that advance these agendas.’ (Sidaway &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;: 6) we hope that the &lt;i&gt;SJTG&lt;/i&gt; will publish this open letter, as a public and permanent record.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;During the first week of Israel's war on Gaza, the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) took the decision to cancel its hosting of a Palestinian literary event. ‘Nakba – A Century of Resistance and Solidarity’ had been due to take place on 27 October 2023 as part of the 10th edition of Palfest, an annual event that celebrates Palestinian culture and ‘the creation of language and ideas for combating colonialism in the 21st century’. Thankfully, Palfest organizers were able to find an alternative venue at short notice, but the Society's decision has not gone unnoticed. It came at a time when calls for an end to Israeli occupation (or even for a ceasefire) faced censorship in many corners of academia&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and official political discourses in the UK, where the RGS-IBG is based, were skewed such that to stand with Israel has become the terrifying norm, at whatever cost to Palestinians. It was in this context, on 13 October, as Israel's war crimes in Gaza were evident (including censure from the United Nations Secretary General), that the RGS-IBG informed PalFest that this was not the time to talk about Palestine. The Society refused to host the event.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;The geographical community responded with critical force. Following discussions on social media and a list serve (the critical geography forum, which is archived at crit-geog-forum@jiscmail.ac.uk), and a letter to the Society bearing nearly 500 signatures, an official response came. The RGS-IBG issued a press statement on 27 October; the decision was not taken ‘lightly or hastily’ but was based on an assessment of risk. The statement did not, we note, use the word ‘Palestine’ once. In a subsequent videocall with the RGS-IBG, we were left unconvinced by the account of the cancellation as one based on risk, especially as the Society has the experience to receive all kinds of high-profile audiences at Lowther Lodge in Kensington. If the security detail of a royal visitor can be accommodated, then why not a discussion about literature and Palestine? Why is one of our most important professional bodies marginalizing a colonized population? These are questions at the centre of a letter we co-authored that was signed by almost 500 members of the geography community and delivered to the Society on 7 November. We took it as a sign of productive engagement that the RGS responded just two days later with a letter that apologized for not either moving the event online or making it invitation-only. The response also expressed a commitment ‘to convene an open","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139501636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diasporic scholarship: racialization, coloniality and de-territorializing knowledge","authors":"Kamna Patel, Romola Sanyal","doi":"10.1111/sjtg.12529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12529","url":null,"abstract":"In considering how knowledge reproduces the dynamics of coloniality in Geography, scholars have looked beyond the Global North and Global South as cartographical sites, instead seeing them as conceptual frameworks and epistemic positions. Building on this rich work, we draw attention to specific issues obscured within it. Whilst geographical scholarship has moved to recognizing how the Global North and South bleed into each other, it frequently continues to locate scholars themselves within specific territories, labelling them <i>of</i> the Global North or <i>of</i> the Global South, thereby re-territorializing scholars and their work and reflecting and revealing processes of racialization within the academy.","PeriodicalId":47000,"journal":{"name":"Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}