Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialisms, Queer Ecology, and Spectral Tropicality

Autor: Christian Jil R. Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S.N. Nyeck
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, Vol 23, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1448-2940
DOI: 10.25120/etropic.23.1.2024.4079
Popis: 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 the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly zone, and the notion of tropicality as simultaneously material and imaginary, reconfigure notions of queer sexuality. In other words, our aim has been to study how the tropical might queer queerness itself. This is to attempt to understand queer as a way to initiate and pursue critical encounters with the tropical world—indeed to begin queering the tropics. This first part of the double special issue draws on queer and trans theories and LGBTQIA2+ studies to map encounters with tropical nature, including tropical materialisms, queer ecologies, and spectral tropicality. Decolonial praxis and Indigenous epistemologies also inform this cartography. The papers collected together in this special issue offer a richness that both critiques and expands queer studies.
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