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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bagay: Articulating a New Materialism from the Philippine Tropics [PDF]
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2022 Keeping in time with the new materialist turn that aspires to respond to the common disregard to matter in Euro-Western tradition of thought while at the same time insisting the imperative to decolonize such turn, this essay attempts to articulate a Philippine rendition of new materialism, through the notion of bagay, nominated here as a thing whose ...
C. Benitez
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the TropicsThis 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
Christian Jil R. Benitez +3 more
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Mangrovian Encounters between Epistemologies of the South and New (Feminist) Materialism
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 With the increased interest sparked across academia in both new materialism and epistemologies of the South, old colonial and patriarchal habits rear their vicious heads.
Aleida Luján Pinelo
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