Militant tropicality: war, revolution and the reconfiguration of ‘the tropics’c.1940–c.1975

摘要: The critical literature on ‘tropicality’– the colonising discourse that constructs tropical world as West’s environmental Other – focuses chiefly its historical links with colonialism and agency of Western colonisers. Scant attention has been paid to trajectory this between 1940s 1970s, or how it resisted by ‘tropicalised’. This paper teases out how, in post-war era decolonisation Cold War, there arose experience a potent image tropics militant combative, belligerent revolutionary. term tropicality is deployed recall identify suite counter-hegemonic knowledges, practices experiences emanating from challenged way West judged against presumed normality temperate north. dwells two sites promulgation Caribbean during 1950s, Vietnam 1960s probes some salient imaginative material geographies using range sources (literature, art, journalism, revolutionary thought, government military records). underscores (little studied) martial quality 1960s, had become closely associated guerrilla wars jungle settings fractured ‘temperate’ model war.