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Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices and Possibilities [PDF]
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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Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialisms, Queer Ecology, and Spectral Tropicality [PDF]
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
Christian Jil R. Benitez +3 more
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Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry [PDF]
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 While toxic substances continue increasingly, and unevenly, infiltrating the world, the new materialist turn invites us to examine the relationalities emerging between pollution and literature.
Ysabel Muñoz Martínez
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Black Seed Dreaming: A Material Analysis of Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu” [PDF]
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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Mangrovian Encounters between Epistemologies of the South and New (Feminist) Materialism [PDF]
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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Queer Tropical Gothic: Parody, Failure, and Space in Nick Joaquin’s “Gotita de Dragon” [PDF]
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropicsThe stories for children by Filipino literary master Nick Joaquin (1917-2004), when compared to his famous works for adults, have received scant attention even though they are as masterfully written and thematically sophisticated.
Raymon D. Ritumban
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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 ...
Benitez, Christian Jil R
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Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures [PDF]
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropicsTropical Futurisms situates the reading of futures in the shared yet multiple modalities of this geo-climatic zone, acknowledging the social and political complexities, technological engagements, multispecies vitalities, and cosmological plurality ...
Ysabel Muñoz-Martínez +3 more
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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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Graun Em Pulap Long Pipia: Rubbish, Sorcery, and Spiritual Healing, Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 2022 Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea comments that the “Earth is full of rubbish” and associates this material overflow with the possible causes and consequences of sorcery.
Vavrova, Daniela
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