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Impure and Worldly Geography

Release on 2019-02-132019-02-13 by Gavin Bowd
Impure and Worldly Geography

Author: Gavin Bowd

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317118084

Category: Science

Page: 320

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Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy. This book explores this neglected history through the work of Pierre Gourou, one of the century’s foremost purveyors of what anti-colonial writer Aimé Césaire dubbed tropicalité. It explores how Gourou’s interpretations of ‘the nature’ of the tropical world, and its innate difference from the temperate world, were built on the shifting sands of twentieth-century history – empire and freedom, modernity and disenchantment, war and revolution, culture and civilisation, and race and development. The book addresses key questions about the location and power of knowledge by focusing on Gourou’s cultivation of the tropics as a romanticised, networked and affective domain. The book probes what Césaire described as Gourou’s ‘impure and worldly geography’ as a way of opening up interdisciplinary questions of geography, ontology, epistemology, experience and materiality. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students within historical geography, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies and international relations.
Science
Impure and Worldly Geography
Language: en
Pages: 320

Impure and Worldly Geography

Authors: Gavin Bowd, Daniel Clayton
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-13 - Publisher: Routledge

Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy. This book explores this neglected history through the
The Great Social Laboratory
Language: en
Pages: 345

The Great Social Laboratory

Authors: Omnia El Shakry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-29 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

This book charts the development of the social sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in colonial and postcolonial Egypt, exploring the broader significance of knowledge production and its relationship to colonialist and nationalist ideologies.
Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire
Language: en
Pages: 280

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire

Authors: Jean Fernandez
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-13 - Publisher: Routledge

In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of
A World Without Hunger
Language: en
Pages: 272

A World Without Hunger

Authors: Archie Davies
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-17 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.Drawing on the rich personal archive of the geographer Josué de Castro, this book tells a new history of geography by following
Gender, Geography and Empire
Language: en
Pages: 250

Gender, Geography and Empire

Authors: Cheryl McEwan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-03 - Publisher: Routledge

This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the recognition of the need to write critical histories of geographical thought and, particularly, the relationship between modern geography and European imperialism; and secondly, the attempt by feminist geographers to

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