Postnormal Conservation
Since their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In Postnormal Conservation, Katja Grötzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution has been both a product and an enabler of modernity and the Westphalian nation-state. Initially intertwined with projects of colonialism and empire building, contemporary botanic gardens have reinvented themselves as environmental governance actors. They are now at the forefront of emerging forms of networked transnational governance. Building on social studies of science that reveal the politicization of science as the producer of contingent, high-stakes, and uncertain knowledge, and the concomitant politicization of previously taken-for-granted science-policy interfaces, Neves contends that institutions like botanic gardens have discursively deployed postnormal science and posthuman precepts to justify their growing involvement with biodiversity conservation governance within the Anthropocene.
Foreword / Peter Stoett and Owen Temby
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
I.1 Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Conservation
I.2 Trouble in the Garden: Facing the Anthropocene’s Onto-Epistemological Challenges
I.3 “Ontopolitics,” Postnormal Science, and Governance in the Anthropocene
I.4 The Transnational Embededness of Botanical Garden Biodiversity Governance
I.5 Chapter Overview 32
1. Botanical Garden Histories of Governance
1.1 Opening Vignette: Writing Postnormal Conservation
1.2 Botanic Gardens, Modernity, and Governance
1.3 The Reinvention of Botanic Gardens as Agents of Biodiversity Conservation in the Anthropocene
1.4 Life-Governing Rationalities and Coexisting Environmentalities: Botanic Gardens as Institutions of Governance
1.5 Chapter Conclusions
2. Botanical Knowledge, Power, and Governance: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the Longue Durée
2.1 Opening Vignette: From Economic Botany to the Botany of Conservation
2.2 Planting Empires, Growing Economies: The Gilded Age of Botanic Gardens
2.3 Risen from the Ashes? Kew’s Rebirth as Center of Calculation in the Anthropocene
2.4 People and Plants at Kew: Challenges and Adaptations
2.5 Chapter Conclusions
3. Postnormal Conservation at Espace Pour la Vie
3.1 Opening Vignette: Challenges and Paradoxes of Twenty-First-Century Governance
3.2 Coproducing the Monarch Butterfly as a Hyperboundary Object
3.3 A “First Point of Contact with Nature”: Relational Monarch Ontologies of Conservation
3.4 Butterflies, Public Engagement, and Postnormal Conservation
3.5 Chapter Conclusions
4. Communities in Nature: Multispecies Care at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Bristol Zoo Gardens
4.1 Opening Vignette: “Communities in Nature”
4.2 Doing “Conservation ‘Stuff’ in Place, around the Planet”: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s Edible Gardening Project
4.3 Creating Champions for the Future: “Once You Think about It, the Possibilities Are Unlimited . . .”
4.4 Lessons Learned from Communities in Nature
4.5 Chapter Conclusions
5. Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Index
Katja Grötzner Neves is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Canada.
| Pm Supplier | Ingram Publisher Services UK (NBNi) |
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| Pm Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 1438474555 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9781438474557 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2019-06-01 |
| Pm Width | 152 |
| Pm Height | 16 |
| Pm Author | Grötzner Neves,Katja, Stoett,Peter, Temby,Owen |
| Pm Longness | 229 |
- Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance
- Author: Grötzner Neves,Katja, Stoett,Peter, Temby,Owen
- Page Count: 250
- Publication Date: 2020-01-02
Postnormal Conservation
- Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance
- Author: Grötzner Neves,Katja, Stoett,Peter, Temby,Owen
- Page Count: 250
- Publication Date: 2020-01-02
