Although co-edited from UK 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.
An 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, two Special Issues were published:
- July: Southeast Asian Migrant Women: Navigating Borders,
Negotiating Scales, edited by Theresa W. Devasahayam, Shirlena Huang
and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
- November: Political Economy and Environment in Latin America, edited
by Robert Gwynne
In 2005, the following issue was published:
- November: French Tropical Geography, edited by Gavin Boyd and Dan Clayton
In 2006 and 2007, three special issues were published::
- March 2006 : Remote Sensing on Monitoring and Modelling of Tropical Deforestation, edited by Douglas 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.
Several more special issues have been commissioned for the next two years. These include :
- March 2008 : Cinematic Representation of the Urban Tropical City, edited by Chua Beng Huat.
- November 2008: Caribbean Geographies, edited by Tracy Skelton and Susan Mains;
- March 2009: Critical Geographies of Corruption,by Ed Brown and Jonathan Cloke
- July 2009 Environmental Dimensions of the Mexican Tropics by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
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