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Abstract
This essay provides a fresh view on early the history of the botanical garden Buitenzorg by zooming in on the activities of the garden’s first and second directors: Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt and Carl Ludwig Blume. In particular under Blume’s aegis the garden was under constant threat, which eventually led to the temporary closure of the garden in 1826. The essay conceptualizes the garden as a provisional niche, in which collectors, gardeners, merchants, administrators, and plant experts with diverse socio-economic backgrounds and networks came together to negotiate the relationship between botany and imperial politics. Taken together this essay argues that plant science and the garden’s institutional development need to be analyzed as part of a much wider history of colonial management and agricultural exploitation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 178-190 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Studium |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Botany
- Plant science
- Java
- Colonial history
- History of botany
- Botanical garden
- Bogor
- Carl Ludwig Blume
- Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
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International Symposium: Managing Alliances: Plant Science at Bogor Botanical Gardens, 1817-2017
Weber, A. (Chair), Wille, R.-J. (Organiser) & Kessler, P. (Organiser)
19 Oct 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Research output
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Special issue: Laborious Transformations: Plants and Politics at the Bogor Botanical Gardens
Weber, A. (Editor) & Wille, R.-J. (Editor), 2018, In: Studium. 11, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › Academic › peer-review