Floracrats

Name: Floracrats
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State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia

Autor: Andrew Goss

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Situated along the line that divides the rich ecologies of Asia and Australia, the Indonesian archip...

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Autor

Andrew Goss

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2011

Pagini

264

EAN

9780299248642

ISBN

9780299248642

Enbook ID

06385569

Editura

University of Wisconsin Press

Greutate

371

Dimensiuni

154 x 230 x 17

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Situated along the line that divides the rich ecologies of Asia and Australia, the Indonesian archipelago is a hotbed for scientific exploration, and scientists from around the world have made key discoveries there. But why do the names of Indonesia's own scientists rarely appear in the annals of scientific history? In The Floracrats Andrew Goss examines the professional lives of Indonesian naturalists and biologists, to show what happens to science when a powerful state becomes its greatest, and indeed only, patron. With only one purse to pay for research, Indonesia's scientists followed a state agenda focused mainly on exploiting the country's most valuable natural resources - above all its major export crops: quinine, sugar, coffee, tea, rubber, and indigo. The result was a class of botanic bureaucrats that Goss dubs the 'floracrats.' Drawing on archives and oral histories, he shows how these scientists strove for the Enlightenment ideal of objective, universal, and useful knowledge, even as they betrayed that ideal by failing to share scientific knowledge with the general public. With each chapter, Goss details the phases of power and the personalities in Indonesia that have struggled with this dilemma, from the early colonial era, through independence, to the modern Indonesian state. Goss shows just how limiting dependence on an all-powerful state can be for a scientific community, no matter how idealistic its individual scientists may be.

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