"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 c...

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1. Verfasser:	Subramaniam, Banu 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Seattle University of Washington Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:	Feminist technosciences
Schlagworte:	Botanik Kolonialismus Botany / History Imperialism / History Colonization / History Imperialism and science Feminism Botany Science / Social aspects Féminisme Sciences / Aspect social Impérialisme / Histoire Colonisation / Histoire Impérialisme et sciences feminism
Zusammenfassung:	"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. This book 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"--
Beschreibung:	x, 312 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9780295752464 9780295752457