Botanical drift : protagonists of the invasive herbarium /
Botanical Drift explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation and destruction, past and present, extant and extinct, around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by signifi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Sternberg Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Botanical Drift explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation and destruction, past and present, extant and extinct, around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical and anthropological voices, from Germaine Greer to Herman de Vries, bringing new perspectives through photo-essays, fiction, performance and interventions in ecological, film and translation archives. Reflecting on experimental ecology, the undiscovered, underestimated and undesired non-European flora and fauna, it challenges perception and inspires potentialities to bring new understandings of the undergrowth of the Kew Gardens botany collection. |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. |
| Physical Description: | 237 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783956793530 3956793536 |