Bibliography & Scholarly Resources
Over the course of this project we’ve collected and reviewed a vast assortment of scholarly texts covering a range of themes relevant to our research, from plant physiology to plant phenomenology, from environment and ecology to cultural perspectives. We pull this literature from a variety of fields: botanical science, history of science, science and technology studies, political ecology, philosophy, and critical cultural studies, to name a few.
Books
Kimmerer, R W. (2021). Gathering moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses. Penguin UK.
Chamovitz, D. (2020). What a plant knows: A field guide to the senses. Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Irigaray, L., & Marder, M. (2016). Through vegetal being: two philosophical perspectives. Columbia University Press.
Shteir, A. B. (1996). Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760-1860. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Tsing, A L. (2015). The Mushroom at the end of the world. Princeton University Press.
Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, & Anatole Tchikine. (2016). The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection.
Bleichmar, D. (2012). Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Bowker, Geoffrey, & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
Carney, J. (2002). Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.
Daston, L. (2008). Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York: Zone Books, 2008.
Deb Roy, R. (2017). Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. Cambridge University Press.
Endersby, J. (2017). Orchid: A Cultural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Kelley, T. (2012). Clandestine Marriages: Botany and Romantic Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Keogh, L. (2020). The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World. University of Chicago Press.
Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions.
Nesbitt, M., Konchar, K., & Salick, J. (Eds.). (2014). Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook. London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014.
Burns, W. E., Schiebinger, L., & Swan, C. (Eds.). (2004). Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Simon, H. A. (2001). "Seek and ye shall find": How curiosity engenders discovery. In K. Crowley, C. D. Schunn, & T. Okada (Eds.), Designing for science: Implications from everyday, classroom, and professional settings (pp. 5–20). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Sleeper-Smith, S. (Ed.). (2009). Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Zylinska, J. (2017). Nonhuman photography. The Mit Press.
Papers & Articles
Arnold, D. (2008). Plant capitalism and company science: the Indian career of Nathaniel Wallich. Modern Asian Studies, 42(5), 899-928.
Harris, S. A. (2018). 18 Snapshots of Tropical Diversity: Collecting Plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil. In Naturalists in the Field (pp. 550-577). Brill.
Lightman, B. (2000). The visual theology of Victorian popularizers of science: From reverent eye to chemical retina. Isis, 91(4), 651-680.
Kumarakulasingam, N., & Ngcoya, M. (2016). Plant provocations: botanical indigeneity and (de) colonial imaginations. Contexto Internacional, 38, 843-864.
Mitchell, R. (2010). Cryptogamia. European Romantic Review, 21(5), 631-651.
Schiebinger, L. (1998). Lost knowledge, bodies of ignorance, and the poverty of taxonomy as illustrated by the curious fate of flos pavonis, an abortifacient. Picturing Science, Producing Art, London and New York: Routledge.
Secord, A. (1994). Science in the pub: artisan botanists in early nineteenth-century Lancashire. History of science, 32(3), 269-315.
Tobin, B. F. (2005). Domesticating the tropics: Tropical flowers, botanical books, and the culture of collecting. Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters 1760–1820.
Agostinho, D. (2019). Archival encounters: rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives. Archival Science, 19(2), 141–165.
Ansari, A., Nourbakhsh, I., Louw, M., & Bartley, C. (2013). Exploring Gigapixel Image Environments for Science Communication and Learning in Museums. Annual Conference of Museums and the Web, Portland.
Schultz, T., Abdulla, D., Ansari, A., Canlı, E., Keshavarz, M., Kiem, M., Martins, L. P. de O., & J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, P. (2018). What Is at Stake with Decolonizing Design? A Roundtable. Design and Culture, 10(1), 81–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2018.1434368
Ashby, Jack, & Machin, R. (2021). Legacies of Colonial Violence in Natural History Collections. Journal of Natural Science Collections 8, 44–51.
Briscoe, L., Nazaire, M., Allen, J. R., Baker, J., Donnell Davenport, A., Mansaray, J., McCormick, C. A., Santiago Coyle, M., & Schmull, M. (2022). Shining Light on Labels in the Dark: Guidelines for Offensive Collections Materials. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 18(4), 506–523.
Das, S. & Lowe, M. (2018). Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections. Journal of Natural Science Collections, Volume 6, 4 - 14.
Daston, L. (2004). Type Specimens and Scientific Memory. Critical Inquiry, 31(1), 153–182.
Dietz, B. (2014). Linnaeus’ restless system: translation as textual engineering in eighteenth-century botany. Annals of Science, 73(2), 143–156.
Drucker, J. (2011). Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display. Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, No. 1 (2011).
Drabinski, E. (2013). Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction. The Library Quarterly, 83(2), 94–111.
Hartigan, J. (2015). Plant Publics: Multispecies Relating in Spanish Botanical Gardens. Anthropological Quarterly, 88(2), 481–507.
Krmpotich, C., & Somerville, A. (2016). Affective Presence: The Metonymical Catalogue. Museum Anthropology, 39(2), 178–191.
Kwet, M. (2019). Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South. Race & Class, 60(4), 3–26.
Littletree, S., & Metoyer, C. A. (2015). Knowledge Organization from an Indigenous Perspective: The Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian Terminology Project. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53(5-6), 640–657.
McOuat, G. R. (1996). Species, rules and meaning: The politics of language and the ends of definitions in 19th century natural history. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 27(4), 473–519.
Nesbitt, M. & Cornish, C. (2016). Seeds of Industry and Empire: Economic Botany Collections Between Nature and Culture. Journal of Museum Ethnography, 29, 53–70.
Sanders, E. B.-N. ., & Stappers, P. J. (2008). Co-creation and the new landscapes of design. CoDesign, 4(1), 5–18.
Schwartz, J. M., & Cook, T. (2002). Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory. Archival Science, 2(1-2), 1–19.
Secord, A. (1994). Corresponding interests: artisans and gentlemen in nineteenth-century natural history. The British Journal for the History of Science, 27(4), 383–408.
Star, S. L., & Griesemer, J. R. (1989). Institutional Ecology, `Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science, 19(3), 387–420.
Turner, H. (2016). Critical Histories of Museum Catalogues. Museum Anthropology, 39(2), 102–110.
Whitelaw, M. (2012). Towards generous interfaces for archival collections. Comma, 2012(2), 123–132.
Wright, K. (2019). Archival interventions and the language we use. Archival Science, 19, 331–348.