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Framing China's tropics: Thermal techno‐politics of socialist tropical architecture in Africa (1960s−1980s).
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography . Sep2023, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p519-538. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper seeks to position socialist China in the mobility of global socialism in the context of Cold‐War politics. It examines how the techno‐politics of China and the Soviet‐bloc's socialist tropical architecture differently reconfigured thermal exchanges between the environment, human body and a series of other multi‐scalar things in Africa during the 1960s−1980s. Drawing on the theories of thermal material culture, techno‐politics and science and technology studies (STS), it constructs a cross‐cultural comparison between China and Soviet‐bloc, aiming to achieve a more nuanced techno‐political understanding of mid‐late twentieth century socialist architecture in the Global South. It also hopes to contribute to recent scholarship about thermal comfort and governance in the context of climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIALISM
*THERMAL comfort
*SCHOLARLY method
*MATERIAL culture
DEVELOPING countries
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01297619
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171918201
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12506