Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses
In this Introduction, we set the Special Issue on 'Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis' within the context of a call for relational climate discourses as they arise from particular locations in the tropics. Although climate change is global, it is not experienced everywhere the same a...
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doaj-61646ae48e5e4f16bfe6495c7767a6f22021-09-10T04:55:53ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402021-09-0120210.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3803Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate DiscoursesAnita Lundberg0André Vasques Vital1Shruti Das2James Cook University, AustraliaEvangelical University of Goiás, BrazilBerhampur University, India In this Introduction, we set the Special Issue on 'Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis' within the context of a call for relational climate discourses as they arise from particular locations in the tropics. Although climate change is global, it is not experienced everywhere the same and has pronounced effects in the tropics. This is also the region that experienced the ravages – to humans and environments – of colonialism. It is the region of the planet’s greatest biodiversity; and will experience the largest extinction losses. We advocate that climate science requires climate imagination – and specifically a tropical imagination – to bring science systems into relation with the human, cultural, social and natural. In short, this Special Issue contributes to calls to humanise climate change. Yet this is not to place the human at the centre of climate stories, rather we embrace more-than-human worlds and the expansion of relational ways of knowing and being. This paper outlines notions of tropicality and rhizomatics that are pertinent to relational discourses, and introduces the twelve papers – articles, essays and speculative fiction pieces – that give voice to tropical imaginaries and climate change in the tropics. https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3803Tropical Imaginary, climate imaginary, climate crisis, Tropics, climate change, rhizomatics, tropicality, relational, more-than-human words |
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Anita Lundberg André Vasques Vital Shruti Das Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics Tropical Imaginary, climate imaginary, climate crisis, Tropics, climate change, rhizomatics, tropicality, relational, more-than-human words |
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Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses |
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Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses |
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Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses |
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Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses |
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tropical imaginaries and climate crisis: embracing relational climate discourses |
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James Cook University |
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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In this Introduction, we set the Special Issue on 'Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis' within the context of a call for relational climate discourses as they arise from particular locations in the tropics. Although climate change is global, it is not experienced everywhere the same and has pronounced effects in the tropics. This is also the region that experienced the ravages – to humans and environments – of colonialism. It is the region of the planet’s greatest biodiversity; and will experience the largest extinction losses. We advocate that climate science requires climate imagination – and specifically a tropical imagination – to bring science systems into relation with the human, cultural, social and natural. In short, this Special Issue contributes to calls to humanise climate change. Yet this is not to place the human at the centre of climate stories, rather we embrace more-than-human worlds and the expansion of relational ways of knowing and being. This paper outlines notions of tropicality and rhizomatics that are pertinent to relational discourses, and introduces the twelve papers – articles, essays and speculative fiction pieces – that give voice to tropical imaginaries and climate change in the tropics.
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Tropical Imaginary, climate imaginary, climate crisis, Tropics, climate change, rhizomatics, tropicality, relational, more-than-human words |
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