Living Cities: Tropical Imaginaries

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.17.1.2018.3638

Keywords:

tropical cities, material culture, architecture, imagination, creativity, urbanisation, heritage, mythology, displacement, creative economy, neoliberalism, narratives, sustainability

Abstract

This special issue of eTropic  concerns living cities in the tropics and how they are conceived through the imagination. The collection of papers reminds us that urban environments are both created and creative spaces concerned with peopled and lived experiences and their interaction with material, cultural and natural environments. The issue is interested in processes of tropical space and place-making, with an emphasis on key areas that make up lived cities in the tropics: architecture, design, creative industries and economies, circular economy, neoliberalism, displacement, heritage, urban myths, narratives, cultural and natural landscapes, sustainable practices, and everyday life.

Author Biography

Anita Lundberg, James Cook University Singapore

Associate Professor Anita Lundberg is a cultural anthropologist whose research engages people and places of Southeast Asia. Her work concerns the lived experiences of tropical liminal spaces. Anita’s projects include ethnographies in Singapore, and previously, Malaysia and Indonesia. She has received awards for outstanding teaching, research supervision, and innovative research and has held numerous international fellowships. She has curated exhibitions in Singapore, NY, LA, Paris and Sydney and her own research, theoretical, and artistic works have been exhibited at the Australian National Maritime Museum, the National Art Gallery of Malaysia and Alliance de Française. Anita has a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Cambridge University, UK.

References

Lundberg, A. & Geerlings, L. (2017). Tropical Liminal: Urban Vampires & Other Blood-Sucking Monstrosities. eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 16 (1), 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.1.2017.3574

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Published

2018-04-25

How to Cite

Lundberg, A. (2018). Living Cities: Tropical Imaginaries. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.17.1.2018.3638