Search Results - "Etropic"

Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation by Chao, Sophie, Enari, Dion

“…This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing…”
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Vertical Farming: An Assessment of Singapore City by Wood, Jacob, Wong, Caroline, Paturi, Swathi

“…Urban planners, government leaders, and the farming community have noted the important role cities play in producing their own food to manage higher levels of…”
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(Un)Worlding the Plantationocene: Extraction, Extinction, Emergence by Chao, Sophie

“…This article explores how tropical plantation lifeworlds are made and unmade through more-than-human forms of extraction, extinction, and emergence. Taking the…”
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Tropical Landscapes and Nature-Culture Entanglements: Reading Tropicality via Avatar by Lundberg, Anita, Regis, Hannah, Agbonifo, John

“…Landscape integrates both natural and cultural aspects of a particular geographical area. Environmental elements include geological landforms, waterscapes,…”
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Sissyphilia and Tropicopolitan Sensibilities: Queering the Star in Thai Boys Love Media by Prasannam, Natthanai

“…This article investigates the queered star image in Thai Boys Love/yaoi (BL)/Y media released after 2020 through the lens of sissyphilia, queer scholarship,…”
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Queer Resilience: Reviving Indigenous-Pacific Perspectives and Practices by Ravulo, Jioji, Hollier, Joel, Waqa, Malakai, Vulavou, Isikeli, Dina, Eroni

“…In the face of ongoing discrimination, stigma, ostracism, and violence, Pacific Islanders of Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, Intersex…”
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Queering Tropically: Sexuality, Indigeneity, Decoloniality, Spatiality by Benitez, Christian Jil R., Chwala, Gregory Luke, Lundberg, Anita

“…This is the second collection of papers in a two-part issue on the theme of Queering the Tropics. This second issue begins by delving into the notion of…”
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“Muchakang Pangkalawakan”: Queering Engagements with Bakla of the Philippine Tropics by Millo Jr, Artemio P.

“…The performance of participants in the Miss Gay Muchakang Pangkalawan [Miss Ugly Gay Universe] in Quiapo, Manila, reflects characteristics of the flamboyant…”
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Queering Striated Food Politics: Tropical Postg(l)ocal Precarity in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef by Ghosal, Abhisek

“…The inoperativity of striated narratives of food politics stands caught up by patriarchal practices of identity formation entailing codification of different…”
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New Boy, An Excerpt: On the Sensorial Tropics and Queer Consciousness by Bengan, John

“…This excerpt of a chapter seeks to employ the tropic as a presence shaping the queer protagonist’s consciousness. The novel, from which the chapter is taken,…”
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Queering Authoritarianism in Uganda: Dissident Sexualities and Tropical African [anti]-Aesthetics in Stella Nyanzi’s No Roses from my Mouth by Akingbe, Niyi

“…In this article, I argue that queering female sexualities as ‘dissident sexualities’ Stella Nyanzi in her collection of prison poems, No Roses from My Mouth…”
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Counter Home: Unravelling the Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Hijra Dwellings of Khulna, Bangladesh by Podder, Apurba K., Shahidullah, Fadia Binte

“…Amidst limited social acceptance and scant governmental and non-governmental support for third gender communities in Bangladesh, this paper explores the…”
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Fa‘atama: Indigenous Tomboys of Sāmoa by Treagus, Mandy, Enari, Dion

“…This paper acknowledges that queerness has always existed in the tropics, especially in Sāmoa. In traditional Sāmoan life, there has always been more than two…”
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Provincial Drag in the Philippine Tropics: Towards a Decolonial Queer Tropical Aesthetics by Ramirez, Ian Rafael

“…Drag, in its neoliberal permutation, has become the most consumed queer art form everywhere in the world. The popularity of drag is often attributed to the…”
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Dual Narratives, Shared Radiance: A Tropical Asian Queer Collaborative Autoethnography by Gacumo, Radel James, Peng, Sheng-Hsiang Lance

“…Employing a tropical Asian queer collaborative autoethnographic approach, this article explores the unique narratives of two diasporic researchers hailing from…”
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Queer Narratives and Colonial Injustice: Tropical Landscape in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Samal, Prabhudutta, Samantaray, Swati

“…This paper explores the intersection of colonialism, masculinity, and queerness in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Through a decolonial…”
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Tropical Indigenous Queer as Guardians of Tradition: The Bissu of Bugis Society, Indonesia by Syamsurijal, Halimatusa'diah, Wasisto Raharjo Jati

“…Bissu means neither a man nor a woman, but a holy person representing all genders. The Bissu are unique to the Bugis society of South Sulawesi, Indonesia…”
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Intersection of Queerness, Disease, and Tropics: Walking the Streets of Anosh Irani's ‘The Parcel’ by Neelofar Shafi, Peerzada Owais Adil, Priyanka, Prachi

“…This paper provides an analysis of Anosh Irani's novel The Parcel, with a particular focus on queerness and disease within the Hijra community of prostitutes…”
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Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialisms, Queer Ecology, and Spectral Tropicality by Christian Jil R. Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S.N. Nyeck

“…This special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of…”
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Ghosts, Eco-Queer, Sri Lankan History: Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Ewa A. Łukaszyk

“…This essay aims to comment on the consequences of the queering of historical vision in reference to the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict and, in a wider perspective,…”
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