“The Nutmeg’s Curse”
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
botany
Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 15
Interview with John Cardina, author of Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Cardina is interviewed on his recent book, Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly.
In Praise of Weeds: Sympoiesis at St. James’s Piccadilly
Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 1
“Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies”
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
“Negotiating Botanical Collections: Dr Johann Preiss in Germany and Western Australia”
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.
Recollecting the “prodotti vegetali” of the Natural History Museum, University of Florence
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 12
Botanizing in the Borderlands
Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 33
How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 16
"Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"
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.