French Tropical Geographies: Editors' Introduction

Bowd, Gavin; Clayton, Daniel

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.2005.00224.x

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“…The relationships of tropical geography—and wider discourses of tropicality—to empire and the ways this was reworked subsequently, as well as postcolonial and decolonial alternatives have frequently figured in the SJTG (Sidaway et al ., 2018), with accounts of Anglophone (Bunnell et al ., 2013; Driver & Yeoh, 2000) as well as Francophone and Lusophone (Bowd & Clayton, 2003, 2005; Ferretti, 2017; Pimenta et al ., 2011; Power, 2020) narratives. These are part of a kaleidoscopic picture, whereby as Dan Clayton (2020: 1540) notes, there are questions about ‘how decolonization was differently positioned within different geographical traditions and debates and how geographical knowledge both advanced and challenged understanding of this process’.…”

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Editorial: Decolonial Tropical Geographies?

Sidaway

Chang

Feng

et al. 2021

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Editorial: Decolonial Tropical Geographies?

Sidaway

Chang

Feng

et al. 2021

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…It was attended by many French geographers who had worked in Brazil, such as Monbeig, George, Rochefort, Bernard Kayser and Pierre Deffontaines (Bomfim, ; Ferretti, ). It is worth noting that, despite the importance of tropicalism and imperial legacies in French geography (Bowd & Clayton, ), an academic tropical geography was fully established in France only in the 1950s. According to Paul Claval, it served “postcolonial policies of cooperation” (Claval, , p. 300) rather than imperial endeavours.…”

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Inventing critical development: A Brazilian geographer and his Northern networks

Ferretti

Pedrosa

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper addresses a corpus of unpublished sources in a first attempt to reconstruct the exile networks of Brazilian geographer Milton Santos, placing his geographical and political work in the context of present‐day debates on development, anti‐development and critical development. Our main argument is twofold: first, we argue that Santos played important although poorly understood roles in the debates that shaped both Anglophone and French‐speaking critical geographers in the 1960s and 1970s. Far from being passive receivers of ideas from the Global North, Southern scholars like Santos contributed to shape worldwide concepts in critical studies on development and underdevelopment. Second, the ideas spiralling out of Santos’ networks can still nourish present‐day scholars in development and critical development theories who are willing to criticise the “ideology of development” without forgetting the material existence of poverty and socio‐spatial marginalisation. Finally, Santos’ biography and networks provide an example of cosmopolitan and multilingual intellectual work that can provide insights for the present‐day internationalisation of critical and radical geographies.

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“…27 In particular, Gavin Bowd and Daniel Clayton have considered the role of militarism in shaping tropics as a place constructed and known through both its physical and political environments. 28 Clayton explains that, for westerners, the term 'tropics' generally invokes three images of 'otherness' that have been informed temporally by the shifting and plural discourse of tropicality. 29 First, the image of a tropical paradise; the second of primeval sultry, oppressive jungles; and the third of 'capitalist and colonialist fantasy, rapacity and misadventure'.…”

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Designs on the desert: camouflage, deception and the militarization of space

Forsyth

2013

cultural geographies

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Throughout the Second World War camouflage was employed to conceal and counterfeit the military’s presence in diverse landscape habitats; a technology designed to wipe out revealing patterns and inscribe false forms, all in order to make of enemy reconnaissance a glass eye. It was on the plains of the North African desert that the technology proved its effectiveness for military strategy. The desert was an expansive, shifting environment, demanding a new relationship between modern militarism and knowledge of the earth’s surface. Where aerial reconnaissance could threaten to expose military desert designs, other forms of visual literacy were developed to engage with the vertical, as well as the horizontal, plane, all in order to camouflage military movements. This paper critically considers the triangulation of the technology of the aeroplane, and the camera, alongside the granular surface of sand. It explores the working practices of British desert camoufleurs, a diverse group of practitioners, including artists, scientists, filmmakers and, less expectedly, a magician, who were handpicked by the military due to their skills in visual literacy. Their innovations in camouflage form a narrative focusing on the development of desert-based design practices that subsequently arose from military engagements with this environment. The paper seeks to show both the aesthetic and the political implications of these military incursions into the desert, telling how the militarization of the desert exploited a land of mirages to deadly effect.

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French Tropical Geographies: Editors' Introduction

Cited by 20 publications

References 47 publications

Editorial: Decolonial Tropical Geographies?

Editorial: Decolonial Tropical Geographies?

Inventing critical development: A Brazilian geographer and his Northern networks

Designs on the desert: camouflage, deception and the militarization of space

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