{"product_id":"botany-of-empire-plant-worlds-and-the-scientific-legacies-of-colonialism-paperback","title":"Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBanu Subramaniam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBanu Subramaniam\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRebecca Herzig\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eColonial 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. \u003ci\u003eBotany of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA reckoning and a manifesto, \u003ci\u003eBotany of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e provides experts and general readers alike with a roadmap for transforming the colonial foundations of plant science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBanu Subramaniam\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of \u003ci\u003eHoly Science \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGhost Stories for Darwin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756892086605,"sku":"9780295752464","price":62.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/5omVeUSYrf9780295752464.webp?v=1776754743","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/botany-of-empire-plant-worlds-and-the-scientific-legacies-of-colonialism-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}