Postnormal Conservation

Foreword
Peter Stoett and Owen Temby

Acknowledgments

Introduction 1
I.1 Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Conservation
I.2 Trouble in the Garden: Facing the Anthropoceneâs Onto-Epistemological Challenges
I.3 "Ontopolitics," Postnormal Science, and Governance in the Anthropocene
I.4 The Transnational Embededness of Botanical Garden Biodiversity Governance
I.5 Chapter Overview 32

1. Botanical Garden Histories of Governance
1.1 Opening Vignette: Writing Postnormal Conservation
1.2 Botanic Gardens, Modernity, and Governance
1.3 The Reinvention of Botanic Gardens as Agents of Biodiversity Conservation in the Anthropocene
1.4 Life-Governing Rationalities and Coexisting Environmentalities: Botanic Gardens as Institutions of Governance
1.5 Chapter Conclusions

2. Botanical Knowledge, Power, and Governance: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the Longue Dur©e
2.1 Opening Vignette: From Economic Botany to the Botany of Conservation
2.2 Planting Empires, Growing Economies: The Gilded Age of Botanic Gardens
2.3 Risen from the Ashes? Kewâs Rebirth as Center of Calculation in the Anthropocene
2.4 People and Plants at Kew: Challenges and Adaptations
2.5 Chapter Conclusions

3. Postnormal Conservation at Espace Pour la Vie
3.1 Opening Vignette: Challenges and Paradoxes of Twenty-First-Century Governance
3.2 Coproducing the Monarch Butterfly as a Hyperboundary Object
3.3 A "First Point of Contact with Nature": Relational Monarch Ontologies of Conservation
3.4 Butterflies, Public Engagement, and Postnormal Conservation
3.5 Chapter Conclusions

4. Communities in Nature: Multispecies Care at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Bristol Zoo Gardens
4.1 Opening Vignette: "Communities in Nature"
4.2 Doing "Conservation âStuffâ in Place, around the Planet": The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghâs Edible Gardening Project
4.3 Creating Champions for the Future: "Once You Think about It, the Possibilities Are Unlimited..."
4.4 Lessons Learned from Communities in Nature
4.5 Chapter Conclusions

5. Concluding Remarks

Notes
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Index