Grasses tame and wild
Imperial entanglements in settler colonial cereal breeding and botany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pg Anderson (0000-0003-1075-1556, History Applied, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 539-560 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848618792233 |
| OpenAlex | W2886820765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article argues that imperial and local state-supported science played a key role in the discursive and material changes - including political, economic, and ecological - in Canadian settler colonialism. I advance this argument through two case studies from Canada's Experimental Farm Service: the breeding of Marquis wheat and attempts to domesticate wild rice as ornamental feed for game birds. Marquis wheat has been celebrated for its role in expanding the wheat growing regions of Canada's Prairies, whereas wild rice's role was transferred from food to ornamental. The movements of these plants through the scientific milieu of the Experimental Farm Service demonstrate how the state used science to lift up settler communities while holding down Indigenous communities
Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Domestication · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Ornamental plant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Ecology
Nature's government
When Wheat Was King
Essays on wheat, including the discovery and introduction of marquis wheat, the early history of wheat-growing in Manitoba, wheat in Western Canada, the origin of red bobs and kitchener, and the wild wheat of Palestine
Naturalizing Federalism
The Spaces of Early Canada
Clearing the Plains
How Agriculture Made Canada
Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867–1967
The Global Turn in the History of Science
Samuel Wilmot, Fish Culture, and Recreational Fisheries in late 19th century Ontario
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
A Broken Frontier
Rethinking the British Empire through Eco-Cultural Networks
Wheat is the nerve of the whole republic’
Indigenous Space and the Landscape of Settlement
Breeding for insect-resistant cotton across imperial networks, 1924–1950
They took our beads, it was a fair trade, get over it’
Wild Rice—Indian food and a modern delicacy
Milk to Mandalay
Not by Human Hands
Animal Domestication in Geographic Perspective
How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire
Plants, Mobilities and Landscapes
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity
Sciences and the Global
Lost Harvests
Acclimatizing the World
Inured to Empire
Women in the Early History of Genetics
Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World
Wild Rice and the Ojibway People
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |