Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene [illustrated] 1351170228, 9781351170222

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GARDENS AND HUMAN AGENCY IN THE ANTHRUPUCENE Edited by

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Maria Paula Diogoa Ana Simfies; Ana. Duarte Rodrigues and Davide Scarso

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This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominanceThe contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science

and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalise tic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and land: scape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities

Maria Paula Diogo is Full Professor of History of Technology and Coordinator of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), School of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal Ana Simoes is Full Professor of History of Science, CoaCoordinator of the Inter—

university Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT),

School of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and President of the Euro«

pean Society for the History of Science

Ana Duarte Rodrigues is Research Fellow of the Interuniversity Centre for the

History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), School of Sciences, University

of Lisbon, Portugal.

Davide Scarso is a PostsDoc Researcher at the lnteruniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHC'T), School of Sciences and Techv nology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. _

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Editorial Board Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK Thom van Dooren, University of New South Wales, Australia Georgina Endfield, Liverpool, UK Jodi Frawley, University of Western Australia, Australia Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia, Australia Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai’i at M noa, USA Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Iain McCalman, University of Sydney, Australia

Edited by Maria Paula Dingo, Ana Simoes, Ana Duatte ROdrigues

Series editors: Scott Slovic (University of idaho, USA), Joni Adamson (Arizona

}ennifer Newell, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia

Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK Sandra Swart, Stellenhosch University, South Africa Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, USA Jessica Weir, University of 1Western Sydney, Australia

and Davide Scarso

International Advisory Board William Beinart, University of Oxford, UK

Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA Paul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Sheri Hou, Renniin University of China, Beijing, China Rob Nixon, Princeton University, Princeton, N}, USA

I’auline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of

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Deborah Bird Rose, University of New South Wales,- Sydney, Australia Sverker Sorlin, KTl-I Environmental Humanities'Lahoratory, Royal Institute of Techno: logy, Stockholm, Sweden Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches' Museum, Munich and _ (So—Director, Rachel Carson Centre, LudwigaMaxirriiliansaUnivers-itat, Germany Ix/Lary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, USA ' Kirsten Wehner, University of London, UK

The Ronrledge Environmental Hmocnities series is an original and inspiring venture recoganising that today’s world agricultural and water crises, ocean pollution and resource depletion, global warming from greenhouse gases, urban sprawl, overpopulation, food insecurity and environmental justice are all crises of estimate. The reality of understanding and finding adaptive solutions to our present and future environmental challenges has shifted the epicentre of environmental studies away from an exclusively scientific and technological framework to one that depends on the human« focused disciplines and ideas of the humanities and allied social sciences. We thus welcome hook proposals from all humanities and social sciences disciplines for an inclusive and interdisciplinary series. We favour manuscripts aimed at an inter; national readership and written in a lively and accessible style. The readership comprises scholars and students from the humanities and social sciences and thoughtful readers concemed about the human dimensions of environmental change.

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Introduction: nature and gardens in the history of science and technology and in garden and landscape studies

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe British Librarg,r CatalogtiingeinaPublication Data iii catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress CatalogirtgvinaPublication Data

Names: Diogo, Maria Paula, editor.

Title: Gardens and human agency in the anthropocene ,9“ edited by Maria Paula Diego, Rina Duarte Rodrigues, Ana Simaoes and Davide ,Scarso.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019 5

Series. Routledge environmental humanities l Includes bibliographical references and index Identifiers: LCCN 2013061191 (print) | LCCN 2019009656 {eboolc}l ISBN 9?813511?0246 (eBookl 1 ISBN 9780815346661 lhbk) Subjects: LCSH: GardenswEnvironmental aspects. | Gardensnl-listory. 1 Human ecology. l Landscape gardening—Environmental aspects. Classification: LCC 313454.335?) (eboolt) | LOG SB454.3.E53 C33? 2019 (print) | BBC 635-dc23 LC record available at https:],r’lccn.loc.gov,r'2013061 191

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Rethinking the garden 1 Hygiene, education and art: Roberto Burle Marx’s 1930s modern gardens in Brazil ALINE os EIGUEIROA SILvA 2 Between the nuclear lab and the backyard: artificially enhanced plant breeding and the British Atomic Gardening Movement

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