TY - JOUR
T1 - Colonial transformations
T2 - Nature, progress and science in the Christchurch botanic gardens
AU - Ginn, F.
N1 - Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - The Christchurch Botanic Gardens are popularly portrayed, both positively and negatively, as an icon of colonial heritage. This paper explores the cultural, social and scientific functions of the Gardens in the 19th century, and argues that they did not simply support colonization. Rather, the Gardens were a site of negotiation, conflict and contradictory meaning. The aim is to show the colonial project, embodied in the space of the Botanic Gardens, as fraught and vulnerable, rather than as the extension of panoptic European power.
AB - The Christchurch Botanic Gardens are popularly portrayed, both positively and negatively, as an icon of colonial heritage. This paper explores the cultural, social and scientific functions of the Gardens in the 19th century, and argues that they did not simply support colonization. Rather, the Gardens were a site of negotiation, conflict and contradictory meaning. The aim is to show the colonial project, embodied in the space of the Botanic Gardens, as fraught and vulnerable, rather than as the extension of panoptic European power.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=63649100319&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2009.01146.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2009.01146.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:63649100319
SN - 1745-7939
VL - 65
SP - 35
EP - 47
JO - New Zealand Geographer
JF - New Zealand Geographer
IS - 1
ER -