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Impure and Worldly Geography - Pierre Gourou and Tropicality (Paperback)
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Impure and Worldly Geography - Pierre Gourou and Tropicality (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Historical Geography
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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 anti-colonial writer Aime Cesaire dubbed
tropicalite. 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 - empire and freedom, modernity and
disenchantment, war and revolution, culture and civilisation, and
race and development. The book addresses key questions about the
location and power of knowledge by focusing on Gourou's cultivation
of the tropics as a romanticised, networked and affective domain.
The book probes what Cesaire described as Gourou's 'impure and
worldly geography' as a way of opening up interdisciplinary
questions of geography, ontology, epistemology, experience and
materiality. This book will be of great interest to scholars and
students within historical geography, history, postcolonial
studies, cultural studies and international relations.
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