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Ambient temperature modelling from surface characteristics and associating urban morphology with thermal discomfort Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Kanaya Dutta, Debolina Basu, Sonam Agrawal
Urban heat island assessment is of paramount importance when monitoring microclimate changes, increased heat stress, mortality and energy consumption. Simply analysing land surface temperature patterns for human comfort and health assessment is often inadequate. In this study, we attempt to resolve this inadequacy with ambient temperature modelling from multiple surface characteristics for a tropical
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Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings. Rapti Siriwardane‐deZoysa, Kelvin E.Y.Low, NoormanAbdullahandAnna‐KatharinaHornidge(eds). Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, MA, USA, 2022, xii + 236. ISBN 978‐9‐004‐51108‐8 (hbk). Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Henryk Alff
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Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian Occupation. HafsaKanjwal. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2023, pp. 384. ISBN 978‐1‐503‐63603‐3 (pbk). Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Duncan McDuie‐Ra
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Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush. Michael B.Dwyer. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, USA, 2022, pp. xv + 230. ISBN 978‐0‐295‐75049‐1 (pbk). Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christian C. Lentz
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Fire governance research in the tropics: A configurative review and outline of a research agenda Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Christoph Neger, Claudia María Monzón‐Alvarado, Louise Guibrunet
Fire is a highly relevant governance challenge in the tropics: altered fire regimes, among other phenomena, threaten the persistence of various ecosystems. Fire is also widely used by smallholders. Yet, wildfires can put people's livelihoods in danger through direct damages and by impoverishing ecosystem services. Conventional approaches have sought to suppress any type of fire in the landscape. However
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Hilly terrain and housing wellness: Geo-visualizing spatial dynamics of urban household quality in the Himalayan town of Darjeeling, India Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Subham Roy, Suranjan Majumder, Arghadeep Bose, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury
Darjeeling, renowned as the ‘Queen of the Himalayas’, is one of the high-altitude towns in India, distinguished by its exceptional topography and picturesque landscape. Given the challenges posed by limited land availability, susceptibility to natural hazards, and the need for context-specific housing interventions in such hilly terrains, understanding housing conditions becomes paramount. Thus, this
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Bricolage or breakthrough? Entrepreneurial responses to tourism development in a regional tourism destination Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yoshi Abe, Tod Jones, Piotr Niewiadomski, Thor Kerr
The Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) framework contributes to the study of tourism destination evolution by focusing on the various circumstances and events through which tourism destinations develop over long periods of time. Our research objective is to investigate how players in tourism destinations shape development pathways when they face stagnant or lock-in situations. Applying the concepts
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Quantum Black creative geographies: embodiment, coherence and transcendence in a time of climate crisis† Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Patricia Noxolo
This paper brings together three parallel strands of work—Black Geographies, geographies of Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies. The paper begins by considering static linear spacetimes as colonial spacetimes, and draws on Michelle Wright's critique of Middle Passage epistemologies, from Black Studies, to elaborate on this. It then moves through a number of ways in which, over the
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Long term (1901−2021) trends and prediction of climatic variability in selected agro-ecological zones of Himachal Pradesh using coupled statistical and machine learning approaches Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Swati Thakur, Manish Kumar, Akash Tiwari, Ankur Yadav, Tamanna Soni, Dinesh Kumar Tripathi
This study analyses the trends of changing climatic elements in the hydrological regime of the Indian Himalayan Region with specific focus on Agro-ecological zone II & III of Himachal Pradesh for the period of 1901−2021. The upper, middle, and lower catchment areas of Sutlej River Basin were studied to reveal regional trends in climatic parameters. The Mann-Kendall test and Sen Slope analysis were
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Diasporic scholarship: racialization, coloniality and de-territorializing knowledge Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Kamna Patel, Romola Sanyal
In considering how knowledge reproduces the dynamics of coloniality in Geography, scholars have looked beyond the Global North and Global South as cartographical sites, instead seeing them as conceptual frameworks and epistemic positions. Building on this rich work, we draw attention to specific issues obscured within it. Whilst geographical scholarship has moved to recognizing how the Global North
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Editorial: Tropical Connections and Traumas Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 James D. Sidaway, TC Chang, Chen-Chieh Feng, Xi Xi Lu, Godfrey Yeung
Since 2013, the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography awards annual prizes (each of whose authors receive USD 1000—shared in the case of co-authorship) for the best paper by a graduate student (where the lead author is a graduate student) and the best overall paper. Members of the journal's wider Editorial Board, who independently read papers short-listed by us, the editors, made the final selection
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An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The War on Gaza, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), and a Palestinian literary event Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Mark Griffiths, Sarah Hughes, Olivia Mason, Aya Nassar, Nicole Printy Currie
Mindful that the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (SJTG) has previously declared that ‘the SJTG hopes to publish more scholarship on the past, present and future geographies of decolonization and the decolonization of geography. We encourage submissions…that advance these agendas.’ (Sidaway et al., 2021: 6) we hope that the SJTG will publish this open letter, as a public and permanent record
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Tiger conservation, biopolitics and the future of Indian environmentalism Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Ajit Menon, Rituparna Borah
Tiger conservation in India has been driven for the most part by a philosophy that prioritizes the need for inviolate tiger reserves free of human beings. Such reserves, it is argued, provide much needed territory to ‘care’ for the tiger. In this paper, we examine the biopolitics of tiger conservation in India and argue that the current approach to tiger conservation amplifies the nature-culture divide
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Hydrological changes in the drought-prone region of Maharashtra (India): Implications for sustainable water use Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Rahul S. Todmal
Recent climatic changes and anthropogenic activities considerably affect regional water resources, particularly in water-scarce regions. The present study, therefore, aims to understand the changes in monsoon rainfall, potential evapotranspiration (PET), surface runoff, dam storage and groundwater in the drought-prone region of Maharashtra. The analyses of trend and step-change were carried out using
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Resurfacing heat stress phenomena in Indian cities during the post-COVID-19 lockdown period Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Rituraj Neog
This study investigates heat stress in 17 Indian cities during the post-COVID-19 lockdown period. The study compares thermal comfort experienced during the COVID-19 lockdown against that experienced during post-lockdown, which has not been previously studied. The analysis utilizes daily and monthly climate data from 1991 to 2022 obtained from the Langley Research Centre's official website. The net
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Chinese infrastructure as spatial fix? A political ecology of development finance and irrigation in Cambodia Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 W. Nathan Green, Rosa Yi
China has recently become an agent of intensified agricultural production in Southeast Asia by constructing large-scale irrigation systems. Funded with Chinese development finance, such infrastructure projects have been interpreted as a ‘spatial fix’ for capital accumulation in China, which helps explain the shifting balance of power within the region's political economy. However, we argue that explaining
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A train reaction: the infrastructural politics and mobility injustices accompanying Hanoi's new urban railway Line 2A Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sarah Turner, Binh N. Nguyen, Madeleine Hykes
In 2008, Vietnam's Prime Minister approved the construction of the ‘Hanoi Urban Railway System’, a major infrastructure project for the country's capital city. The construction of Line 2A, the first line of this 8-line railway, took ten years to complete, and was finally inaugurated in November 2021. Spanning 13 km across the city centre, Line 2A encountered more than just construction setbacks, with
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Peat fires in Brunei Darussalam: considerations for ASEAN haze cooperation and emerging regional infrastructure development Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Helena Varkkey, Massimo Lupascu
This paper sheds light on the extent of the haze problem in Brunei Darussalam and on Brunei's unique position in contributing to the haze through fires occurring in disturbed parts of its peatlands. Brunei's peatland fires, which have their roots in infrastructure development, juxtapose drastically with the drivers of peat fires in other parts of southern Southeast Asia, which are mainly due to small-
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Dynamics of coastal tourism: drivers of spatial change in South-East Asia Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Mark P. Hampton, Raoul Bianchi, Julia Jeyacheya
Coastal tourism has grown significantly across South-East Asia from the 1960s, particularly in three key destinations hosting large tourist numbers: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. It encompasses different scales from basic backpacker accommodation in budget enclaves to large scale capital-intensive luxury resort enclaves. Coastal tourism studies typically range from descriptive analyses of destinations’
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Seeing the state in waste? Exploring the everyday state and imagined state performance in Lusaka's lower income settlements Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Natasha Cornea
In this paper I demonstrate the ways that the everyday state is produced in and through Lusaka's rubbish, although the state is largely absent from the day-to-day management of the solid waste in the city. This analysis draws insight from over 90 semi-structured interviews with a range of respondents in Lusaka, primarily focussed on the cities’ lower income settlements. I build on the overlapping conversation
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Snapshot of a crisis: food security and dietary diversity levels among disrupted conventional and long-term organic tea-smallholders in Sri Lanka Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Nethmi S. Perera Bathige, William G. Moseley
In Sri Lanka, conventional and organic smallholder producers grow seventy percent of the country's tea, bring in significant export earnings, and are differentially exposed to input supply shocks. While tea production may be advantageous for the nation's economy, it is less clear whether it is good for the food security of those smallholders involved. This study examines how economic status (income
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Remote sensing-based geostatistical hot spot analysis of Urban Heat Islands in Dhaka, Bangladesh Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Nur Hussain, S.M. Shahriar Ahmed, Amena Muzaffar Shumi
Urban Heat Island (UHI) refers to a phenomenon whereby urban areas experience higher temperatures compared to the surrounding areas. Remote sensing-based Land Surface Temperature (LST) measurements can be utilized to measure UHI. This study emphasized on geostatistical remote sensing-based hot spot analysis ( G i * ) of UHI in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a way of examining the influences of Land Use Land
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Understanding the mobility patterns of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) passengers amid COVID-19 in Singapore using smart card data Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Mingjia Chen, Yingwei Yan, Chen-Chieh Feng, Shuting Chen, Jing Wang, Mengbi Ye
The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) is one of the major modes of public transportation in Singapore. Understanding the mobility patterns of MRT passengers has implications for improving transportation efficiency. As a city-state with a high population density, Singapore provides a representation of balanced urban dynamics that informs smart urban planning. In this paper, we investigated and visualized (using
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Multidecadal trend analysis of hydrological drought along River Niger using the Streamflow Drought Index Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Samuel Ogunjo, Adeyemi Olusola, Olufemi Durowoju
Droughts affect human well-being and the economy of countries across the world. Understanding the long-term evolution of droughts within a particular region will help in drought mitigation and adaptation plans, thereby reducing drought impact on the environment. This study examined the multidecadal trends in hydrological droughts at two stations along River Niger using 3-month, 6-month, and annual
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Human capital requirements in Singapore's international financial centre Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Gordon Kuo Siong Tan
International financial centres (IFCs) are regarded as important nodes in governing global flows of money and capital. With increased globalization and rapid technological changes, the rivalry among IFCs has further intensified competition for financial labour—as a concentrated pool of highly skilled finance workers in an open and flexible labour market is crucial to sustaining the competitive dynamics
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‘Where there is fish, is where I put my head’: Challenges of mobile fishers in Elmina fishing community in Ghana Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi
Small-scale fisheries are crucial for improving livelihoods by providing fisher employment, and food security. As part of their work, fishers frequently move to different fishing communities to catch and trade in fish. This paper analyses the living circumstances of artisanal fishers and discusses their mobility patterns, lodging arrangements, and the difficulties they encounter as they carry out their
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Spatial analysis of thunderstorms and lightning casualties in Bangladesh Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Md. Mahabubur Rahman, Tasnim Ara, Mohiuddin Ibn Shafique, Md. Abdur Rahman, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman
Considering the adverse outcomes of thunderstorm-mediated lightning in recent years, this study aimed to identify the most thunderstorm-and-casualty prone regions and seasons in Bangladesh, via geospatial mapping. We attempted to forecast the number of yearly thunderstorm (TS) days for each meteorological station and district-level lightning casualties by using TS days as a proxy variable. Data on
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Impact of climate change on paddy crop failure under different water regimes in Sri Lanka Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Chamila Kumari Chandrasiri, Takuji W. Tsusaka, Farhad Zulfiqar, Avishek Datta
This study highlighted the severity of paddy harvest failure under various water regimes by elaborating on spatiotemporal variations, and estimating the influence of climatic variation on such crop failure in Sri Lanka. A panel data set obtained from 18 districts from 1981 to 2019 was analysed. The Unharvest Index (UI) (i.e., an index that was developed to measure the intensity of crop failure) was
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Including the Caribbean. A commentary on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’. Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Tracey Skelton
The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography special lecture at the 2022 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference delivered by Jonathan Pugh (written with his co-author David Chandler), provided a stimulating discussion and triggered a range of engagements and challenges. The plenary raised a complex geographical challenge which had the title then of Abyssal Geographies and located us in the Anthropocene
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The stakes of abyssal geography. Response to commentaries on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’. Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 David Chandler, Jonathan Pugh
We thank Kevin Grove, Adom Philogene Heron, and Tracey Skelton for their generous and extremely useful commentaries on the abyssal analytic. We also thank James D. Sidaway, Nuraziah Aziz, and Chih Yuan Woon for facilitating the dynamic flow of discussion and debate—beginning with a draft paper, then the RGS-IBG conference plenary and discussion with the panel and audience, now concluding with the published
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Weaving the labouring landscape in the Sri Lankan apparel industry. A review of Kanchana N. Ruwanpura's Garments without Guilt? Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Andrew Herod
Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xxvi +198. ISBN 978-1-108-83201-4 (hbk). Traditionally, explanations of how industries have developed in particular places have largely looked to the actions of capital and/or the state. Neo-classical theory, for instance, has suggested
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Garment producer nations as ethical sourcing destinations. A review of Kanchana N. Ruwanpura's Garments without Guilt? Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Peter Lund-Thomsen
Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xxvi +198. ISBN 978-1-108-83201-4 (hbk). In Garments without Guilt?, Kanchana Ruwanpura provides a substantive overview of the history and the development of the country's garment industry, including the contribution of not only capital
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Writing labour into ethical apparel production. A review of Kanchana N. Ruwanpura's Garments without Guilt? Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Rebecca Prentice
Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xxvi +198. ISBN 978-1-108-83201-4 (hbk). What improves working conditions in the global garment industry? Are private regulations hopelessly ineffective, or can they play a role in raising labour standards? How can national governments,
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Weaving the labouring landscape in the Sri Lankan apparel industry: Conversing with reviewers Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Kanchana N Ruwanpura
Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xxvi +198. ISBN 978-1-108-83201-4 (hbk). 2022: An author's nightmare to some extent: a book is finalized during COVID and published, while the pandemic shows no visible signs of dispersing, despite break speed vaccine discoveries and inoculation
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Land scarcity and land access in a hazard-prone island: Sagar, Indian Sundarbans Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Chinmoyee Mallik, Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Sumana Bandopadhyay
The analytical inseparability of natural environment and society is reiterated by the findings of this study which contributes to a genre of studies that centre-stages the socio-ecological system. This study seeks to understand the interplay of state-related and other modes of securing property rights in the context of pervasive coastal hazards through a case study from the Indian Sundarbans region
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Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Stephen Taylor, Laurent Mavinga, Moise Bashiga
As international health organizations have increasingly acknowledged the global burden of psychological trauma, global health experts have sought to appraise and organize the treatment of trauma through objective, neutral forms of classification and calculation. Rather than see trauma as a singular thing whose biological, social and psychological formation is bracketed by expert perspectives, this
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‘We are at the mercy of the floods!’ : Extreme weather events, disrupted mobilities, and everyday navigation in urban Ghana Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Ebenezer F. Amankwaa, Katherine V. Gough
This paper examines how extreme weather events affect the mobility of low-income urban residents in Ghana. Bringing together scholarship on extreme weather and mobilities, it explores the differential impact of flooding on their everyday lives as they navigate the cities of Accra and Tamale. A range of qualitative methods were drawn on, including semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions
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The ebb and flow of capital in Indonesian coastal production systems Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Yunie N. Rahmat, Jeff Neilson
The global fisheries sector has undergone both rapid industrialization and considerable resource depletion. Unlike fisheries in the Northern Hemisphere, the Indonesian (and indeed Southeast Asian) sector is still largely dominated by small-scale producers, who are partially embedded within a subsistence economy. Changes in the nature of production and livelihoods in the fisheries sector appear similar
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Letting failure be: COVID-19, PhD fieldwork and to not (want to) learn from failures Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Chayanika Saxena
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has prompted researchers to rethink their fieldwork. My doctoral fieldwork plans, which involved conducting ethnographic research amongst Afghan refugees and migrants in New Delhi and Kolkata, were upended because of the recurring waves of the pandemic and the lockdowns/curfews that were imposed in their wake (2020−2022). Locked out of my field, my inability to conduct
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Abyssal geography† Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 David Chandler, Jonathan Pugh
Today, we are held to live in the Anthropocene, bringing to an end modern binary imaginaries, such as the separation between Human and Nature, and with them Western assumptions of progress, linear causality and human exceptionalism. Much Western critical theory, from new or vital materialism to post- and more-than-human thinking, unsurprisingly reflects this internal crisis of faith in Eurocentric
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A geospatial assessment of flood hazard in north-eastern depressed basin, Bangladesh Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Mohammad Abdul Quader, Hemal Dey, Abdul Malak, Zakiur Rahman
Floods are a frequently occurring calamity in deltaic Bangladesh. This paper aims to assess the temporal expansion of waterbodies during flooding using geospatial techniques. Several water indices were applied to classify the satellite images at various temporal scales. Among them, the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) showed the highest correlation (r = 0.831; where p = 0.01) with rainfall
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‘Sub-human’ beyond citizenship. A review of Nasir Uddin's The Rohingya. Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Prem Kumar Rajaram
The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life. Nasir Uddin. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, 2020, pp. xviii + 250. ISBN 978-0-199-48935-0 (hbk). The term ‘sub-human’ fills me with hesitation. Its genealogy is troubling of course, as it has been used as a justification to exterminate. Indeed the division of the world between humans and those of a lesser claim to humanity may be the defining
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Guest Editorial: Ecological knowledge co-production and the contested imaginaries of development in Southeast Asia Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Robert A. Farnan, Sally Beckenham, Carl Middleton
Introduction In Human Geography, there is growing interest in how accounts of development can be wedded to an understanding of society in which the material or technical is connected to the social. Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches this division by emphasizing the inextricable relationship between technology and society. This process of co-production—between science and technology on
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Understanding the spatial knowledge of freshmen and sophomores about their university campus: A case study from Jimei University, Xiamen, China Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Jinghan Xie, Yingwei Yan
The influence of environmental familiarity on spatial knowledge development in the context of campuses and their surrounding environments has been well documented. However, existing studies have rarely stressed the distinction between the architectural styles of a campus and its surrounding environment. This study thus targets a campus with a historical architectural style that contrasts strongly with
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The influence of mountainous relief on the vertical gradient of precipitation and pluvial zoning in the central slope of the Gulf of Mexico Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Victor Soto, Juan Cervantes
Although variation of air temperature with respect to terrain altitude is widely understood, less is known about the altitudinal behaviour of precipitation. The eastern slope of Mexico is the most contrasting physiographic province of the country due to its relief. This area is also one of the most important regions of Mexico and of the intertropical region of America because of its biodiversity. Due
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Southeast Asian cities as co-producers of ecological knowledge in transnational city networks Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Tomasz Kamiński
In a polycentric world, cities increasingly bear responsibility for implementing climate policies. To do so, they establish transnational city networks (TCNs), which produce ambitious imaginaries of the future of cities, such as ‘smart cities’ or ‘resilient cities’, based on ecological knowledge. This paper analyses Southeast Asian (SEA) cities’ participation in TCNs. First, this paper presents city
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Pow Choon-Piew's contributions to urban China studies Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Junxi Qian
This commentary serves as a tribute to the late Pow, a remarkable scholar in urban geography and urban studies, summarizing his contributions to urban China studies. It aims to showcase the way in which Pow's work manoeuvred adroitly with an implicit comparative gesture—building a bridge between situated Chinese cases and wider theoretical debates in urban studies in order to enrich both domains. The
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‘Born to Run’: Remembering C.P. Pow Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Harvey Neo
C.P. Pow was my confidant, colleague and (occasional) collaborator for more than 20 years. He had fought a valiant and dignified battle with an aggressive cancer but ultimately succumbed to it in July 2021. I will reminisce a few of the little known traits of Pow which had shaped him to become the conscientious, obliging and humble academic that he was known for.
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C.P. Pow: Our intersecting academic pathways and some of his lasting contributions Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Tim Bunnell
C.P. Pow became a significant part of my own academic journey from soon after I joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1999. Our academic inspirations, interests and identities overlapped, and we had opportunities to co-teach and co-write. I use these overlaps and collaborations as a way into reflecting on Pow's work, mainly during the period up to when he received tenure at NUS in 2011
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Ethnic politics and ambivalent imaginaries of the future at the Melaka Straits Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Monika Arnez
This article examines the ambivalent relationship between members of the Portuguese-Melakan Kristang minority and the state from the 1940s to the present day through the lens of ethnic politics. It reveals how ambivalent imaginaries of the future have shaped the politics of community members and what strategies they have used to assert their place. Moreover, it analyses how partly contradictory, partly
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Remote sensing mapping of the regeneration of coastal natural habitats in Singapore: Implications for marine conservation in tropical cities Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Y. H. Jonathan Tan, Jacqueline K. Q. Tham, Aayush Paul, Umair Rana, Hui Ping Ang, Nhung T. H. Nguyen, Alex T. K. Yee, Bryan P. I. Leong, Simon Drummond, Karenne P. P. Tun
Rapid urbanization has resulted in the loss of coastal and marine habitats in cities worldwide. The effective conservation of urban coastal ecosystems requires detailed knowledge of their spatial distribution, necessitating high-resolution mapping. Our study produces a high-resolution coastal and marine habitat map and shoreline map for the tropical city-state of Singapore created through pixel-based
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Spatial concentration and variability of rainfall in the Iguaçu River Basin, State of Paraná−Brazil Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Aparecido Ribeiro de Andrade, Jonas Teixeira Nery, Bruno Henrique Costa Toledo
The analysis of rainfall as an environmental factor that influences landscape dynamics is an important and ongoing topic of discussion. This discussion can be centred on the discovery of impacts caused by the increase or decrease in rainfall frequency and intensity. From this perspective, this study sought to analyse the rainfall variability in the Iguaçu River basin, located in the State of Paraná
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Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state-led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Edyta Roszko
During the 2010s, the South China Sea (SCS) became a geopolitical flashpoint over the sovereignty of the Paracels and Spratlys. China envisioned its transformation of coral reefs into military bases and island cities as an SCS ‘green construction’ project. This article analyses how the SCS is discursively construed and practically constructed as maritime national territory, by mobilizing fishing legacies
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Women adjusting their sails: The role of motility in women's livelihood strategies in a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Fazeeha Azmi, Ragnhild Lund
This article draws on research conducted in a fishing village in southern India to examine the ways in which middle-aged women in a precarious socio-economic position used mobility and immobility strategies to improve their livelihoods, both inside and outside of fisheries. Kaufmann et al.'s (2004) work on motility is applied to show how the mobility decisions and livelihood needs and plans of five
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Disruption to vegetable food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Lao People's Democratic Republic Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Chanthaly Syfongxay, Daovy Kongmanila, Phonevilay Sinavong, Silinthone Sacklokham, Kim Suzanne Alexander
Globally, the COVID-19 (SARSCoV-2) pandemic has affected human health and the flow of goods and services in many sectors, with significant social and economic consequences and repercussions. COVID-19 lockdowns have disrupted food systems; impacting farmers, food producers, traders and consumers. Using a food system approach, disruptions to and the resilience of vegetable food production and trade was
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Projecting nostalgia: Portrayal of memoryscapes in local cinema as place attachment for community-driven redevelopment of Singapore landscapes Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Zi Gui Toh, Jessica A. Diehl
‘Memoryscapes,’ the intangible expression of memories perceived through physical landscapes, are designed by the state to reinforce national identity in Singapore. However, state-curated memoryscapes become contested when diverging and diverse memories of the people, which manifests as place attachment, are overlooked. The easy accessibility of content creation and consumption empowers people to bypass
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Navigating the landscape of defiant scholarship in and beyond Africa: On archives, bridges and dangers. A commentary on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies’. Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Stefan Ouma
I am grateful for being part of the conversation that was sparked by Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's thoughtful piece on defiant scholarship and dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies. Their contribution raises a broad range of questions for human geography, in and beyond the continent, but also beyond the discipline of geography itself. The ‘beyond geography’ looms large in
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Epistemic injustice in geography. A commentary on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies’. Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Maano Ramutsindela
The ongoing debate on the politics of knowledge, especially the dominance of Eurocentric epistemology at the expense of indigenous knowledge systems reveals multiple ways in which knowledge production takes place in universities, and how it is institutionalized. There is consensus among critical scholars of higher education that the European origins of the African university have implications for the
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Defiance through many means: The urbanities of African universities. A commentary on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies’. Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 AbdouMaliq Simone
Daley and Murrey (2022) in this critical intervention, reiterate the importance of African intellectual production as not only a long occluded register and a long-standing missed opportunity, but as acts of defiance. While certain radical political economy threads of African scholarship could in some quarters be seen as crowding out a more heterogenous actual canon, defiance here is not only in response
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Indigenous interpretations and engagement of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Peninsular Malaysia Singap. J. Trop. Geogr. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Yunci Cai
Based on long-term ethnographic study of the Indigenous Mah Meri communities at Carey Island and Orang Seletar communities at Danga Bay, both in Peninsular Malaysia, I critically examine local interpretations and engagement of China-backed investments promoted under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Although these investments have encroached on their native customary territories and destroyed the