hlo i feel bad its nth fun..i was just reading something where they looked at gardening/gardens as colonial artifacts. ofc this is a multifaceted approach but i thought it was interesting to look at pruning, cutting and taming plants/trees as colonising nature and space+
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oh also!! its also interesting that certain plants refuse to grow in certain environments and no matter how much you try they will keep resisting!!
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so many people in comments were saying its not that deep but i think it kind of is☺️ we should always ask questions and try to think holistically rather than in isolation
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i thought about this while our prof was teaching us this poem kubla khan and talked about how the king’s garden and attempt to tame the river is essentially colonialism !
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also yeah, theres the obvious fact that colonial empires were built on these plantation trades—tea, indigo, cotton sugar all of them. britishers rave about their tea but its not even theirs…its from Camellia sinensis native to china.
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makes me question the concept of ‘undeveloped land’—this is such a gray space because why is all power concentrated in the hands of select people? development feels uni dimensional when it benefits only certain class and section of society
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i wonder, can this essentially be anthropocentrism? also why just gardens, nature in whole can be viewed as a colonised space since there is constant exploitation and extraction
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the whole idea of botanical gardens kind of leans into this perspective. there is selection and categorisation and taming of native environment to develop an aesthetically pleasing space. its interesting to think about what kind of people make these decisions and who benefits
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