The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reworking Biopower as Florapower Export

@article{RefWorks:39, abstract = {In this analysis, the author reviews the origins and operations of a major American establishment for the botanical sciences: the Missouri Botanical Garden. In recounting how the Garden was founded and why it survives today, the author suggests that botanical gardens are another one of the many social institutions used to generate knowledge in modern society, thereby articulating power. It is widely believed that modern men and women need scientific knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life. Institutions like the United Kingdom's Royal Botanical Garden at Kew or its North American imitator, the Missouri Botanical Garden, help create such knowledge. They express power by displaying bounded images of nature and by creating models of how humanity might coexist aesthetically and economically with certain plants in particular sites to produce the benefits of modern life. Thus, in addition to creating particular kinds of scientific information and providing entertainment, botanical gardens play a role in shaping contemporary political culture. 10.1177/1086026600133003}, author = {Luke, Timothy}, citeulike-article-id = {2137146}, comment = {ID: 806; The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reworking Biopower as Florapower citeulike:1937024; RP: NOT IN FILE}, journal = {Organization Environment}, keywords = {analysis, biopower, containment, knowledge, life, lt, nature, origin, plants, review, science, sciences, united}, number = {3}, pages = {305--321}, posted-at = {2007-12-17 15:25:49}, priority = {2}, title = {The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reworking Biopower as Florapower}, volume = {13}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - RefWorks:39 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2137146 N2 - In this analysis, the author reviews the origins and operations of a major American establishment for the botanical sciences: the Missouri Botanical Garden. In recounting how the Garden was founded and why it survives today, the author suggests that botanical gardens are another one of the many social institutions used to generate knowledge in modern society, thereby articulating power. It is widely believed that modern men and women need scientific knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life. Institutions like the United Kingdom's Royal Botanical Garden at Kew or its North American imitator, the Missouri Botanical Garden, help create such knowledge. They express power by displaying bounded images of nature and by creating models of how humanity might coexist aesthetically and economically with certain plants in particular sites to produce the benefits of modern life. Thus, in addition to creating particular kinds of scientific information and providing entertainment, botanical gardens play a role in shaping contemporary political culture. 10.1177/1086026600133003 IS - 3 JF - Organization Environment EP - 321 TI - The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reworking Biopower as Florapower VL - 13 SP - 305 KW - analysis KW - biopower KW - containment KW - knowledge KW - life KW - lt KW - nature KW - origin KW - plants KW - review KW - science KW - sciences KW - united N1 - ID: 806; The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reworking Biopower as Florapower citeulike:1937024; RP: NOT IN FILE AU - Luke, Timothy PY - 2000/// ER -