page_title: Tropical geography
hierarchical_section_title: Tropical geography
caption_attribution_description: A modified version of "Image:Colonization 1945.png". "United Kingdom" is replaced by "British Empire" and Canada, Australia and New Zealand are included in order to show that though Canada, Australia and New Zealand were not colonies of or subordinate to the United Kingdom they did form a union with it. The author of "Image:Colonization 1945.png" gave it a GNU Free Documentation Licence.
context_page_description: Tropical geography refers to the study of places and people in the tropics. When it first emerged as a discipline, tropical geography was closely associated with imperialism and colonial expansion of the European empires as contributing scholars tended to portray the tropical places as "primitive" and people "uncivilised" and "inferior". A wide range of subjects has been discussed within the sub-field during late 18th to early 20th century including zoology, climatology, geomorphology, economics and cultural studies.
  The discipline is now more commonly known as development geography as colonization had been replaced by economic development as the main ideological driver of international and global interactions since the 1950s. Today, many scholars continue to use the term tropical geography to contest the determinism embedded in the term and de-exoticise the tropical countries and their inhabitants.
context_section_description: Tropical geography refers to the study of places and people in the tropics. When it first emerged as a discipline, tropical geography was closely associated with imperialism and colonial expansion of the European empires as contributing scholars tended to portray the tropical places as "primitive" and people "uncivilised" and "inferior". A wide range of subjects has been discussed within the sub-field during late 18th to early 20th century including zoology, climatology, geomorphology, economics and cultural studies.
  The discipline is now more commonly known as development geography as colonization had been replaced by economic development as the main ideological driver of international and global interactions since the 1950s. Today, many scholars continue to use the term tropical geography to contest the determinism embedded in the term and de-exoticise the tropical countries and their inhabitants.
caption: Map showing the colonial statuses of the world in 1945 with the intertropical zone highlighted.
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