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Earth, a Technogarden

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This paper studies the new repositories of specimens and knowledge that emerged from Sweden’s first “phytotron,” a modern climate laboratory for plant research established in Stockholm in the 1960s. Different aspects and scales of technoscientific plant and crop growth came together under one roof: inhouse trials on the timing and spacing of trees and crops, postwar domestic policies to modernize a largely rural country, and Swedish forest geneticists’ expertise in international efforts to improve forest stand and productivity globally. I argue that a scalar analysis of scientific forestry can help identify and assess the historical contingencies and contexts that formed the interventions in planetary order invoked by the Anthropocene.

Source: Geschichte und Gesellschaft

DOI: 10.13109/gege.2020.46.4.706

Author: Sabine Höhler

Institution: KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Language: German

Topic: History of Science and Natural History

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $647