Although co-edited from UK and European universities during the period
2006 (whilst James Sidaway has been based in Loughborough and Plymouth),
the SJTG has always been closely related to and in large part
edited from the Department. The Department makes a substantial investment
in sustaining the journal, through a dedicated Editorial Assistant,
cartographic support and sponsorship of conferences, plenaries and prizes.
Editorial Board comprises members of the Department and meets at least
three times per year. In addition the Editorial Board is consulted
frequently (via email) on specific papers, proposals for special issues
and editorial directions. The Department-centered Editorial Board is
strengthened and complimented by an International Advisory Board comprising
specialists in human and physical environments of various tropical regions.
The SJTG also features sections on book reviews and conferences of
pertinence to the tropical world. Since the year 2000, special issues on
themes of relevance to the tropics have become a regular aspect of the
journal. Past themes have included a special 40th anniversary issue (1993)
that featured articles reviewing the development of geography in various
parts of the tropical world; Gender and Space in the Tropical World (1996);
Tourism in Southeast Asia (1998); Constructing the Tropics (2000); Economic
Globalisation and the Tropical World in the New Millennium (2000); Global
Processes, Local Responses: Resistance and Compliance in Southeast Asia
(2001); and Forced Evictions in Tropical Cities (2002).
The Journal commemorated its 50th anniversary in 2003 with the
publication of three Special Issues focusing on the overall
theme of Postcolonialism and Eurocentrism.
- March: Tropical Geography: Research and Reflections,
edited by Wong Poh Poh, Shirlena Huang and Carl Grundy-Warr.
- July: Fieldwork in the "Tropics": Power, Knowledge
and Practice, edited by Stuart Corbridge and Emma Mawdsley.
- November: Geography and Postcolonialism, edited
by James D. Sidaway, Tim Bunnell and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.
In 2004-2005, three Special Issues were published:
- July 2004 : Southeast Asian Migrant Women: Navigating Borders,
Negotiating Scales, edited by Theresa W. Devasahayam, Shirlena Huang
and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
- November 2004 : Political Economy and Environment in Latin America, edited
by Robert Gwynne
- November 2005 : French Tropical Geography, edited by Gavin Boyd and Dan Clayton
Between 2006 and 2009, five special issues and one Special Forum were published::
- March 2006 : Remote Sensing on Monitoring and Modelling of Tropical Deforestation, edited by Douglas O. Fuller and Rinku Roy Chowdhury;
- November 2006 : Postcolonial geographies of Development, edited by Claire Mercer, Giles Mohan and Marcus Power
- March 2007 : Gender and Agrobiodiversity, edited by Janet Momsen
- March 2008 : Cinematic Representation of the Urban Tropical City, edited by Chua Beng Huat
- March 2009 : Continental Drift? Development Issues in Asia, Latin America and Africa (Special Forum) by Jessie Ph.H. Poon and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
- July 2009 : Neoliberalism, Mobilities and Development: Caribbean Intersections, edited by Tracey Skelton and Susan Mains
Several more prospective special issues or special sections have been commissioned for the next two years. These include :
- March 2010 : Small Island Sustainability in the Pacific, by Kate Gould
- July 2010 : Special Section on Environmental Dimensions of the Mexican Tropics, by Irasema Alcantara-Ayala and Alan Dykes
- November 2010 or March 2011 : 'Other' Political Ecologies by Godwin Ojo, Soyeun Ki, Rukhe Zehara Saidi and Raymond Bryant
- November 2010 or March 2011 : Tropicality-in-Motion: Performing Tropical Architecture by Lilian Chee, Jiat-Hwee Chang and C.T. Wong, Bobby
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