Thinking Against Empire: Botany and the Environmental Humanities

Banu Subramaniam • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

November 6th @ 6pm • Daniel Family Commons

What does it mean to be a feminist botanist? Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship, Subramaniam shows how gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation shape the foundational language, terminology, and theories of modern botany, and how botany remains grounded in the violence of its colonial pasts. In attempting a project of decolonizing botany, Subramaniam deals with these difficult origins to lay a roadmap to imagine a new feminist botany that harnesses the power of feminist thought to reimagine the practices of experimental biology.

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