Tropical Knowledge: Archipelago Consciousness and the Governance of Excess

The focus of this address is on the potential of tropical geographies to inform and transform western epistemologies. The Humboldt brothers establish an identification of the tropics with (simultaneously) the origin of evolutionary development and its finest, most diversified realisation. In contras...

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Main Author: Paul Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2013-10-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3334/3274