About the Journal
eTropic publishes new research from Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and allied fields on the variety and interrelatedness of nature, culture, and society in the Tropics. eTropic only publishes special issues.
Special Issue themes draw together scholars of the tropics, including: Northern Australia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, tropical Africa, the Indian Ocean Islands, the Pacific, Hawai'i, and the American South.
eTropic journal is free open access, indexed in Scopus, Google Scholar, DOAJ and Ulrich's, and archived in Pandora and Sherpa/Romeo. eTropic uses DOIs and Crossref. The journal is ranked Scimago Q1.
Editor-in-Chief Associate Professor Anita Lundberg
Founding Editor Professor Stephen Torre
Email: anita.lundberg@gmail.com
Current Issue
Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026): Tourisms’ Tristes Tropiques: Literary Travels
Tourisms’ Tristes Tropiques draws attention to the tropical zone where the deleterious effects of tourism are becoming rapidly manifest. Tristes Tropiques evokes the title of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous work in which he analyzes the “sad tropics” in a memoir-travelogue. His literary and reflexive engagement draws our attention to the important place literature, in its many forms, has in the anthropology of tourism and critical tourism studies. Travel literature is not merely fictional; it often presents the problematic reality of tourism in the tropics.
Published:
2026-03-04
Introduction
Poetry
Dystopian Fiction and Travelogues
Travel Novels and Film Narrative
View Current Issue "Tourisms' Tristes Tropiques: Literary Travels" (issue 1 of a double Special Issue)
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