Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses

Lundberg, Anita; Vital, André Vasques; Das, Shruti

doi:10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3803

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“…The Scopus database and other scientific and scholarly literature include more studies on floods and associated phenomena. Previous studies focused on flash floods, coastal floods and reverie floods because of global climate change and unpredictability (Lundberg et al 2021). As the population concentrates in cities throughout the globe, studies of urban flood risk have received more attention.…”

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A comprehensive review of methodologies and implications for evaluating flood susceptibility

Kumar,

Kopare,

Chandra

et al. 2024

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Floods, ever since the dawn of human civilization, have been seen as causes of massive disasters. Since its onset, the influence of human activity has increased, making this calamity more severe. Vulnerability to flooding is complex and multifaceted and it is a matter of critical importance. Since the scale of damage changes with location and with time, determining how susceptible a community is to flooding is of paramount importance. The research is an effort to summarize the methods developed to evaluate flood risk. By examining the authors and terms most commonly cited in the works of others, actionable tactics were uncovered. High-resolution data and a multidimensional approach to vulnerability assessment can enhance current procedures and strategies for estimating flood risk. This research recommends merging hydrodynamic models, geospatial methodologies for flood assessment to present a more complete view of flood vulnerability. It is potentially helpful in identifying methodological inadequacies for measuring flood risk at various geographical scales. The study analyzes several vulnerability components. This research has the potential to fill critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how to measure exposure to flood risk across a variety of geographical scales.

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A comprehensive review of methodologies and implications for evaluating flood susceptibility

Kumar,

Kopare,

Chandra

et al. 2024

Multidiscip. Rev.

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“…Furthering a radical reconceptualisation of the tropics Aimé Césaire, used the term tropicalité as an anti-colonial concept that subverted and reverted the colonial agenda. Importantly his concept was conceived through experiences of his native Martinique and strongly demonstrates how the tropics speaks back to the temperate (Césaire & Roussi, 1978;Clayton, 2021;Boyd & Clayton, 2019;Lundberg et al, 2021).…”

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Tropical Landscapes and Nature-Culture Entanglements: Reading Tropicality via Avatar

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Agbonifo

2022

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Landscape integrates both natural and cultural aspects of a particular geographical area. Environmental elements include geological landforms, waterscapes, seascapes, climate and weather, flora and fauna. They also necessarily involve human perception and inscription which reflect histories of extraction and excavation, of planting and settlement, of design and pollution. Natural elements and cultural shaping by humans – past, present, and future – means landscapes reflect living entanglements involving people, materiality, space and place. A landscape’s physicality is entwined with layers of human meaning and value – and tropical landscapes have particular significance. The Tropics is far more than geographic and needs to be understood through the notion of tropicality. Tropicality refers to how the tropics are construed as the exoticised Other of the temperate Western world as this is informed by cultural, imperial, and scientific practices. In this imaginary – in which the tropics are depicted through nature tropes as either fecund paradise or fetid hell – the temperate is portrayed as civilised and the tropical as requiring cultivation. In order to frame this Special Issue through an example that evokes tropicality we undertake an ethnographic and ecocritical reading of Avatar. The film Avatar is redolent with images of tropical landscapes and their nature-culture entanglements. It furthermore reveals classic pictorial tropes of exoticism, which are in turn informed by colonialism and its underlying notions of technologism verses primitivism. Furthermore, Avatar calls to mind the theories of rhizomatics and archipelagic consciousness.

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“…⎯ Ana Portnoy Brimmer limate catastrophe looms near on the entire planet; however, its impacts are most gravely felt in the Tropics, the region between the Tropics of Cancer and the Tropics of Capricorn (Hsiang & Sobel, 2016;Lundberg et al, 2021;United Nations Children's Fund, 2019). In the Caribbean, increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather has led to mass death, illness, suffering, and displacement.…”

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“…Global temperatures have risen causing polar ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise. The frequency and intensity of storms and weather events has increased (Lundberg et al, 2021;Samenow et al, 2021), and according to UNICEF, over 18 million people worldwide were displaced due to weather-related events in 2017 alone (United Nations Children's Fund, 2019).…”

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Colonial Abandonment and Hurricane María: Puerto Rican Material Poetics as Survivance

González¹

2022

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In the wake of Hurricane María, Puerto Ricans in the tropical archipelago and the diaspora engaged in various forms of community organizing to confront governmental and social abandonment. Building on long-term ethnographic research and poetic analysis focused on the work of Puerto Rican poet Ana Portnoy Brimmer, I analyze poets’ critical and creative material practices that confronted histories of colonialism and engaged in forms of survivance post María (Vizenor, 2008). I argue that survivance is poiesis – a creative engagement in and with the world. Through writing and performing poems, Puerto Ricans contested state narratives about the effects of the hurricane, documented their material and diasporic suffering, and made their lives more livable through accessing necessities, such as food and water, building and reconnecting with community, and bearing witness to each other’s lived experiences. Puerto Rican life and experiences are always entangled with their environment and material world. Thus, for Puerto Ricans, survivance as poiesis is a continuous affirmation of life in the face of ongoing disasters and death through material poetic practices.

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Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

A comprehensive review of methodologies and implications for evaluating flood susceptibility

A comprehensive review of methodologies and implications for evaluating flood susceptibility

Tropical Landscapes and Nature-Culture Entanglements: Reading Tropicality via Avatar

Colonial Abandonment and Hurricane María: Puerto Rican Material Poetics as Survivance

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