Impure and Worldly Geography
Pierre Gourou and Tropicality
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 - empi…
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Weitere Autoren: Clayton, Daniel
- ISBN: 978-1-317-11808-4
- EAN: 9781317118084
- Produktnummer: 30100015
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 330 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'540 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 12 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 7 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 5 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
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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.
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