Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Subramaniam, Banu
Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Subramaniam, Banu

Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its futureColonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes,...
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Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Subramaniam, Banu

Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

$90.48
Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Subramaniam, Banu

Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

$90.48
Author: Banu Subramaniam
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its future

Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to explore the labyrinthine history of how colonialism transformed rich and complex plant worlds into biological knowledge. Botany of Empire demonstrates how botany's foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions. We see how colonizers obliterated plant time's deep history to create a reductionist system that imposed a Latin-based naming system, drew on the imagined sex lives of European elites to explain plant sexuality, and discussed foreign plants like foreign humans. Subramanian then pivots to imagining a more inclusive and capacious field of botany untethered and decentered from its origins in histories of racism, slavery, and colonialism. This vision harnesses the power of feminist and scientific thought to chart a course for more socially just practices of experimental biology.

A reckoning and a manifesto, Botany of Empire provides experts and general readers alike with a roadmap for transforming the colonial foundations of plant science.



Author: Banu Subramaniam
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 06/25/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780295752464

About the Author

Banu Subramaniam is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Holy Science and Ghost Stories for Darwin.


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