Impure and Worldly Geography: Pierre Gourou and Tropicality

ISBN-13: 9780367661212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str.

Gavin Bowd; Daniel Clayton

Opis

By re-examining French geographer Pierre Gourou's work, this book highlights the significant (yet only partially understood) role he played in shaping how the tropical world was viewed during the 20th century. It does so by connecting Gourou to the idea of 'tropicality' - a discourse which constructs 'the tropics' as the West's environmental Other.

Spis treści

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)?

O autorze

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.