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Care of the Species - Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity (Paperback)
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Care of the Species - Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity (Paperback)
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Across the globe, an expanding circle of care is encompassing a
growing number of species through efforts targeting biodiversity,
profoundly revising the line between humans and nonhumans. Care of
the Species examines infrastructures of care—labs and gardens in
Spain and Mexico—where plant scientists grapple with the
complexities of evolution and domestication. John Hartigan
Jr. uses ethnography to access the expertise of botanists and
others engaged with cultivating biodiversity, providing various
entry points for understanding plants in the world around us. He
begins by tracing the historical emergence of race through
practices of care on nonhumans, showing how this history informs
current thinking about conservation. With geneticists working on
maize, Hartigan deploys Foucault’s concept of care of the self to
analyze how domesticated species are augmented by an afterlife of
data. In the botanical gardens of Spain, Care of the Species
explores seed banks, herbariums, and living collections, depicting
the range of ways people interact with botanical knowledge. This
culminates in Hartigan’s effort to engage plants as ethnographic
subjects through a series of imaginative “interview”
techniques. Care of the Species contributes to debates about the
concept of species through vivid ethnography, developing a cultural
perspective on evolutionary dynamics while using ethnography to
theorize species. In tackling the racial dimension of efforts to go
“beyond the human,” this book reveals a far greater stratum of
sameness than commonly assumed.
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