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Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices and Possibilities
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate ...
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Anita Lundberg
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Genetic improvement of breeding materials in tropical and sub- tropical maize [PDF]
Hereditas (Beijing), 2011 In the present study, 122 maize local cultivars and adapted exotic germplasm from Thailand were used to develop open pollinate varieties (OPVs) using modified ear-to-row scheme, top-cross or test-cross programmes. Ten new maize OPVs with distinct characters were created based on the precise breeding objectives and directional design.
Sansern Jampatong, Chaba Jampatong
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Vernacular Virtual: Toward a Philippine New Materialist Poetics
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 This essay turns to and through the Philippine vernacular in order to open up the possibility of a new materialist regard of literature, one that specifically stems from the Philippine tropics.
Christian Jil Benitez
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Into the Woods: Toward a Material Poetics of the Tropical Forest in Philippine Literature
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 This study considers how the tropical forest as a material and discursive space mediates the ways in which history is imagined in Philippine literary texts and literary production. Mobilizing ideas from new materialism, material poetics, and tropicality,
Glenn Diaz
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Black Seed Dreaming: A Material Analysis of Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu”
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Indigenous Australians are outstanding for the way their ontologies and practices do not rely on a Western dichotomy that opposes material and spiritual realms.
Barbara Glowczewski +1 more
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Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 In the epoch of the Anthropocene the environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements of matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with a “multiplicity ...
Sanchar Sarkar, Swarnalatha Rangarajan
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 This article uses adhesives or what I am calling here ‘sticky matter,’ to illustrate multispecies relationships in Macao, a subtropical coastal region in South China. It focuses primarily on a traditional rammed earth material known as chunambo in Macao
Benjamin Kidder Hodges
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Human Ecology, Process Philosophy and the Global Ecological Crisis [PDF]
, 2000 This paper argues that human ecology, based on process philosophy and challenging scientific materialism, is required to effectively confront the global ecological crisis now facing ...
Lei Zhang (38117) +7 more
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Housing materials and methods for tropical Africa [PDF]
Batiment International, Building Research and Practice, 1976 How traditional, and some new, resources are used and might economically be used in future — as seen from the National Housing and Building Research Unit in Tanzania.
J. P. Moriarty, T. I. Svare
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Evolutionary optimization of material properties of a tropical seed [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2011 Here, we show how the mechanical properties of a thick-shelled tropical seed are adapted to permit them to germinate while preventing their predation. The seed has evolved a complex heterogeneous microstructure resulting in hardness, stiffness and fracture toughness values that place the structure at the intersection of these competing selective ...
Peter W, Lucas +6 more
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