In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Cardina is interviewed on his recent book, Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly.
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
Haebich, Anna. “Negotiating Botanical Collections: Dr Johann Preiss in Germany and Western Australia.” In “The European Exchange,” edited by Ashley Hay and Natasha Cica. The Griffith Review 69 (2020): 101–108.
Anna Svenson considers the epistemological implications of the digitization of the Directors’ Correspondence (DC) collection (1841-1928) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She concludes that care is needed to avoid replicating the invisible losses of extractive approaches to knowledge production, particularly in the context of collection-based biodiversity conservation.