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Impure and Worldly Geography Pierre Gourou and Tropicality
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
330 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. The tropics and the colonising gaze 2. Tropicalising Indochina 3. Romancing the tropics 4. Networking the tropics 5. Gourou en guerre 6. Affecting the tropics 7. Gourou’s ‘colonial situations’ 8. Fin de la tropicalité (as we knew it)?
Biography
Gavin Bowd is Reader in French, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, UK.
Daniel Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Geography, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, UK.
