| Postnormal Conservation Contributor(s): Neves, Katja Grötzner (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438474563 ISBN-13: 9781438474564 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Plants - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
| Dewey: 582.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
