Postnormal conservation : botanic gardens and the reordering of biodiversity governance /

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Author / Creator:	Neves, Katja Grötzner, author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in environmental governance : local-regional-global interactions SUNY series in environmental governance.
Subject:	Botanical gardens. Botanical gardens.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12353755

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ISBN:	9781438474571 1438474571 9781438474557 1438474555
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 26, 2019).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Neves, Katja Grötzner. Postnormal conservation. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] 9781438474557

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