Plant Provocations: Botanical Indigeneity and (De)colonial Imaginations

Kumarakulasingam, Narendran; Ngcoya, Mvuselelo

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“…They were, provisionally, its infrastructure, its depth of species and genus, of geomorphological variety, which surfaces the legal fiction of the Proclamation. By surfacing the hidden 'infrastructure' of the Proclamation in the consummate colonial form of the botanical garden, 47 and its taxonomy of 'invasive species', but also a rooftop in the perennially space-starved city-state, Proclamation Garden brought together the two incommensurable conditions of the sea-state's continuing existence and expansion, and existence-as-expansion. It also ironised another site critical for the reproduction of Singapore as Global City: the Gardens by the Bay.…”

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All Lines Flow In: excavating the geophilosophical relations of Singapore’s infrastructure through SEA STATE

Jamieson

2022

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Infrastructure has proven a polyvalent concept in human geography and anthropology for exploring the intersection of the social and technical. However, the ‘below’ of infrastructure, the infra, has remained underexamined in its relationship to the state, territory and the earth. This article proposes that infrastructure is better understood as a geophilosophical relation that renders a set of relations a subsurface for the propagation of another: it designates a socio-natural ground for political-economic figuration. It outlines the geophilosophical relations of infrastructure through thinking with the project SEA STATE by Singaporean artist Charles Lim, a series of artworks which document Singapore’s infrastructural underside, which Lim terms the sea-state, and provides a conceptual elaboration of SEA STATE’s aesthetic figures. In positing the continuity of figures across the sea-state’s varied infrastructures, SEA STATE exposes the colonial trajectory of its infrastructural systems, the contingencies it churns up as it endeavours to maintain its place in the world market, and the fundamental inversion of figure and ground the sea-state has effectuated. This inversion is all the more evident when we consider the expansive land reclamation projects of modern Singapore, wherein its territory has become infrastructure for bespoke logistical and petrochemical concerns, and will continue until the end of the century under the auspices of mitigating sea level rise. As the geological imaginary of the Anthropocene begins to seep into infrastructural anxieties of maintenance, breakdown and inundation, with governments and policymakers demanding that nature itself become infrastructure, it is critical to trace the longue durée of these infrastructural formations, how their continuities are remade and reiterated by the demands of subsequent historical-geographical junctures, and how the designation of figure and ground can ultimately result in the figure becoming the condition of possibility for its ground, requiring its continual reproduction.

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All Lines Flow In: excavating the geophilosophical relations of Singapore’s infrastructure through SEA STATE

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2022

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“…Yet the invocation of this category in postcolonial South Africa has been complicated, by its deployment against groups that have been co-sufferers under white settler colonialism, and by its appropriation by the descendants of settlers in everyday practices such as the cultivation of 'indigenous' plants as a way of aestheticising properties and consolidating their anxious belonging ('putting down roots') in the post-apartheid state. 33 Other contributors similarly gesture at the potentials and pitfalls of the category of indigeneity. For João Nackle Urt, 'indigeneity' is an exogenous and generic term imposed on a range of colonised groups as a way of denying them contemporaneity with the coloniser.…”

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“…32 Jared Sexton, 'The social life of social death: On afro-pessimism and black optimism', in Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations, eds. Agathangelou and Killian, 71 (citations omitted).cultivation of 'indigenous' plants as a way of aestheticizing properties and consolidating their anxious belonging ('putting down roots') in the postapartheid state 33. Other contributors similarly gesture at the potentials and pitfalls of the category of indigeneity.…”

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One Time, Many Times

Rao

2018

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This review article surveys recent work on time and temporality in international relations. It begins with an overview of Kimberly Hutchings's influential history of ideas exploring the relationship between chronos (quantitative experience of time) and kairos (qualitative conceptualisation of time). Building on the architecture of Hutchings's argument, it surveys more recent scholarship that supplements, extends and complicates her insights in two ways. First, while Hutchings focuses on the way in which theorisations of kairos shift over time, the development of a unified global chronotic imaginary was itself a contested process, frequently interrupted by kairotic considerations. Second, while Hutchings is interested in western conceptualisations of kairos, recent work has shifted the analytical focus to those subject positions marginalised by such kairotic imaginaries.

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Cultivating selves: A farmer profile of Fakazile Mthethwa

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Kumarakulasingam

2016

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Plant Provocations: Botanical Indigeneity and (De)colonial Imaginations

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

All Lines Flow In: excavating the geophilosophical relations of Singapore’s infrastructure through SEA STATE

All Lines Flow In: excavating the geophilosophical relations of Singapore’s infrastructure through SEA STATE

One Time, Many Times

Cultivating selves: A farmer profile of Fakazile Mthethwa

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