Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialism, Queer Ecology & Spectral Tropicality

• Main Authors: Benitez, Christian Jil, Chwala, Gregory Luke, Lundberg, Anita, Nyeck, S. N.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: decolonial tropics; Indigenous queer; queer ecologies; queer tropics; queering the tropics; spectral tropicality; tropical materialisms; Arts and Humanities; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/118; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/filipino-faculty-pubs/article/1117/viewcontent/benitez_chwala_lundberg__nyeck_queering_the_tropics_part_1.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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 simulta...