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A Botany of Violence: 528 Years of Resistance & Resurgence

A Botany of Violence: 528 Years of Resistance & Resurgence

Belanger, Pierre
Jafari, Ghazal
Escudero, Pablo

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral ArchitectureLandscape Architecture

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 1951541936
ISBN13: 9781951541934
Publisher: Goff Books
Published: Sep 13 2022
Pages: 542
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
From germ theory to plantation logic, this book tracks 529 years of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America.

Smuggled and stolen by the Jesuits and the Spanish Monarchy in the 17th century, transplanted by Britain and Holland in India and Indonesia during the 18th century, mapped by German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century, weaponized by the U.S. in the 20th century, and monopolized by global pharma in the 21st century, the story of the Cinchona plant--the tree called 'fever'--literally lies at the base of modern civilization. The quest to find the cure for malaria and to control the production of quinine as seen in the corporate monopoly in Africa today also traces deep roots of territorial dispossession and labor exploitation that lie between the Amazon and the Andes. Behind the mask of heritage preservation and resource conservation, five centuries of graphic evidence put into sharp relief the uneven scales of racialized, gendered violence that are rooted in territorial injustices and underpinned by state nationalism.

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