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SUMMARY:Protean geographies: Plants\, politics and postcolonialism in Sout
 h Africa - Professor Cheryl McEwan\, Geography Department\, Durham Univers
 ity
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DESCRIPTION:The significance of plants to the processes that form and refo
 rm human societies and politics has rarely been recognised by historians\,
  historians of science or postcolonial theorists (Schiebinger 2004). Plant
 s rarely feature in narratives of nation-building\, transformation and eve
 ryday life. Drawing inspiration from research over several years in the Ca
 pe Floral Region of South Africa\, I focus on the Protea flower\, and the 
 wider fynbos biome\, to suggest that plants are not only important natural
  and cultural artefacts\, but are embroiled in high-stake politics\, socia
 l transformation and everyday lives. I explore how the Protea\, as a symbo
 l of change and promise\, might also help navigate the apparent incommensu
 rability of the politics of decolonisation and postcolonial theory.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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