Editorial: Decolonial Tropical Geographies?

Editorial: Diverse tropical geographies

“…A year ago, noting that the winner of the best graduate student paper for 2020 (Fenton, 2020) contributed to debates about intellectual decolonization, we affirmed the SJTG 's openness to material on this theme, together with the journal's other traditional foci:

Along with our established remit as a forum for research on tropical environments (including, but not only, natural hazards, degradation of soils and vegetation and their impacts), landscapes and places and reflections on the methodologies that pertain to these themes, the SJTG hopes to publish more scholarship on the past, present and future geographies of decolonization and the decolonization of geography (Sidaway et al ., 2021: 6).

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“…Along with our established remit as a forum for research on tropical environments (including, but not only, natural hazards, degradation of soils and vegetation and their impacts), landscapes and places and reflections on the methodologies that pertain to these themes, the SJTG hopes to publish more scholarship on the past, present and future geographies of decolonization and the decolonization of geography (Sidaway et al ., 2021: 6).…”

Editorial: Seven decades of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography—looking back and future directions

“…Although tropical environments continue as a key focus, the SJTG has also become a space to advance critical postcolonial and decolonial scholarship (Sidaway et al ., 2021). Decolonizing agendas were also a focus of the most recent article (and commentaries on it) in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Lecture Series, based on a keynote presentation held on 3 September at the 2021 Royal Geographical Society–Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference (Daley & Murrey, 2022).…”

Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities. Mary Lawhon with contributions from Lené Le Roux, Anesu Makina and Yaffa Truelove. Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, 2020, pp. xii + 124. ISBN 978‐0‐429‐32614‐1(ebk).

“…However, it also stimulated debates about how such moves 'could do more harm than good' if the terms of decolonization are not determined by the scholars who have been 'racialised as Indigenous and non-white by coloniality' (Esson et al, 2017: 384-5). Others have also posed questions of who decolonizes what, where and why (Sidaway et al, 2021).The focus of this review is not on providing a detailed analysis of decolonization debates in geography. Instead, I take this detour to signal the wider importance of ideas of decolonization for contemporary geographers.…”

“…However, it also stimulated debates about how such moves 'could do more harm than good' if the terms of decolonization are not determined by the scholars who have been 'racialised as Indigenous and non-white by coloniality' (Esson et al, 2017: 384-5). Others have also posed questions of who decolonizes what, where and why (Sidaway et al, 2021).…”