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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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Historical Materialism Conference Poster 2015
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Mabb, David
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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.
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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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Historical Materialism Conference Poster 2014
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Mabb, David
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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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Historical Materialism Conference Poster 2016
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Mabb, David
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Spiritual Materialism/ Material Spiritualism: Shakta Tantric Approaches to Matter
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 In opposition to ontological discourses that denigrate matter and uphold the superiority of the spirit, one can foreground the Shakta Tantric conceptualization of matter and spirit as interchangeable forces that inform the dynamics of the universe ...
Sudipta Chakraborty, Anway Mukhopadhyay
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