This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation
between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control
over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and
staging different forms of human dominance.
The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its
role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between
nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of
research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental
Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and
Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the
past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative
epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that
often revolve around the Anthropocene debate.
This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and
landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical
geography, and the environmental humanities.