Benitez, Christian Jil R., Chwala, Gregory Luke, Lundberg, Anita, and Nyeck, S.N. (2024) Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialism, Queer Ecology & Spectral Tropicality. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 23 (1).

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Abstract

This special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly zone, and the notion of tropicality as simultaneously material and imaginary, reconfigure notions of queer sexuality. In other words, our aim has been to study how the tropical might queer queerness itself. This is to attempt to understand queer as a way to initiate and pursue critical encounters with the tropical world—indeed to begin queering the tropics. This first part of the double special issue draws on queer and trans theories and LGBTQIA2+ studies to map encounters with tropical nature, including tropical materialisms, queer ecologies, and spectral tropicality. Decolonial praxis and Indigenous epistemologies also inform this cartography. The papers collected together in this special issue offer a richness that both critiques and expands queer studies.

Item ID:	89661
Item Type:	Article (Editorial)
ISSN:	1448-2940
Keywords:	queer tropics, queer ecologies, spectral tropicality, tropical materialisms, decolonial tropics, Indigenous queer, queering the tropics
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Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2025 04:41
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4401 Anthropology > 440102 Anthropology of gender and sexuality @ 100%
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