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Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science
Decolonization created new opportunities for international scientific research collaboration. In Indonesia this began in the late 1940s, as Indonesian scientists and officials sought to remake the formerly colonial botanical gardens in the city of Bogor into an international research center. Indones...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37819424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09734-8 |
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description | Decolonization created new opportunities for international scientific research collaboration. In Indonesia this began in the late 1940s, as Indonesian scientists and officials sought to remake the formerly colonial botanical gardens in the city of Bogor into an international research center. Indonesia sponsored the Flora Malesiana project, a flora of all of island Southeast Asia. This project was formally centered in Bogor, Indonesia, with participation from tropical botanists from around the world. The international orientation of Indonesian science led to the establishment of one of UNESCO’s Field Science Co-operation Offices in Jakarta, and to a period of close collaboration between Indonesian botanists and UNESCO. This paper examines the importance of UNESCO’s Humid Tropics research program, which initially provided further opportunities for Indonesian botanists to participate in international scientific networks. The paper concludes by showing that the Humid Tropics program led to the slow erosion of Indonesian agency and authority over tropical botany, and the assertion of Western control and management over tropical botany research. |
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spelling | pubmed-106118712023-10-29 Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science Goss, Andrew J Hist Biol Original Research Decolonization created new opportunities for international scientific research collaboration. In Indonesia this began in the late 1940s, as Indonesian scientists and officials sought to remake the formerly colonial botanical gardens in the city of Bogor into an international research center. Indonesia sponsored the Flora Malesiana project, a flora of all of island Southeast Asia. This project was formally centered in Bogor, Indonesia, with participation from tropical botanists from around the world. The international orientation of Indonesian science led to the establishment of one of UNESCO’s Field Science Co-operation Offices in Jakarta, and to a period of close collaboration between Indonesian botanists and UNESCO. This paper examines the importance of UNESCO’s Humid Tropics research program, which initially provided further opportunities for Indonesian botanists to participate in international scientific networks. The paper concludes by showing that the Humid Tropics program led to the slow erosion of Indonesian agency and authority over tropical botany, and the assertion of Western control and management over tropical botany research. Springer Netherlands 2023-10-11 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10611871/ /pubmed/37819424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09734-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Goss, Andrew Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science |
title | Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science |
title_full | Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science |
title_fullStr | Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science |
title_full_unstemmed | Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science |
title_short | Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science |
title_sort | decolonizing botany: indonesia, unesco, and the making of a global science |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37819424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09734-8 |
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