Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Beginning in 2013 Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography will award annual prizes for the best paper by a graduate student and the best overall paper. US$1000 will be awarded to the winning paper in each of the two categories. Any kind of paper published in the journal – theory papers, empirical papers, methodology papers etc – will be considered for the awards each year. For eligibility to the graduate student category, the lead author must be enrolled in graduate study at the time when their paper is first submitted to the journal.

Selection of the winning papers will be made by members of the journal’s Editorial Board and International Advisory Board. Results will be announced by the end of each calendar year and short profiles of the author(s) will be published in the subsequent volume of the journal.

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (SJTG) is an international, multidisciplinary journal jointly published three times a year by the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. SJTG provides a forum for discussion of problems and issues in the tropical world; it includes theoretical and empirical articles that deal with the physical and human environments and developmental issues from geographical and interrelated disciplinary viewpoints. We welcome contributions from geographers as well as other scholars from the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences with an interest in tropical research.

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Read the top Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography articles online:

Africa, China and the 'new' economic geography of development
Giles Mohan and Marcus Power

Sustainable land use in Tikopia: Food production and consumption in an isolated agricultural system
Ole Mertz, Thilde Bech Bruun, Bjarne Fog, Kjeld Rasmussen and Jytte Agergaard

Sun, sea, sand and tsunami: Examining disaster vulnerability in the tourism community of Khao Lak, Thailand
Emma Calgaro and Kate Lloyd

Globalization, economic crisis and Africa's informal economy women workers
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Donna L. Doane

Economic globalization and regional disparities in the Philippines
Anne Clausen

This special section explores cross-border dynamics for ethnic minorities on the margins of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Our aim is to make a significant contribution to the understanding of the GMS and regionalization more broadly. We are among the first researchers allowed to do fieldwork in borderlands that governments until recently deemed ‘sensitive’ and out-of-bounds. Our contributions bring to light the variability of conditions for minorities, complicating understandings of ‘peripheries’ and ‘centres’, as well as the notion of a singular ‘region’.

Introduction – Regionalization at the margins: Ethnic minority cross-border dynamics in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Janet C. Sturgeon

Under the state's gaze: Upland trading-scapes on the Sino-Vietnamese border
Sarah Turner

The experimental governing of mobility and trade on the China-Laos frontier: The Tai Lue case
Antonella Diana

Managing migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Regulation, extra-legal relation and extortion
Sai S.W. Latt

Imagining the borderlands: Contending stories of a resource frontier in Muang Sing
Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist

Cross-border rubber cultivation between China and Laos: Regionalization by Akha and Tai rubber farmers
Janet C. Sturgeon

You can read these special issues and sections online now:

Experiences of young human geographers researching South Africa

Fragmentation, conflict and hope in the neoliberal city: Urban space in Latin America and the Caribbean

Other political ecologies

‘Tropicality-in-motion’: Performing tropical spatialities

Globalization and gendered livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

Environmental dimensions of the Mexican Tropics

Small island sustainability in the Pacific

Neoliberalism, mobilities and development: Caribbean intersections