Wild Flowers: African-Atlantic Epistemology and the Politics of Garden and Landscape History - Presentation by Grey Gundaker September 19, 2012

Criticizing garden lovers is like attacking apple pie, but in practice the European and American love affair with the Garden as an ideal has helped shape deeply exclusionary accounts of civilization and culture. Grey Gundaker explores a case in point and an African-Atlantic epistemology with much to teach about the responsibilities of humans in and to landscapes.

Grey Gundaker is Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. Her work touches on writing and graphic systems, psychological/cultural classifications such as "intelligence," "creativity," and "literacy"; and arenas of action such as schooling, landscape, artistic and material production, and religious practice. Her areal foci are the African Diaspora (especially the U.S., Caribbean, and central Africa) and the contemporary U.S.

Organized by the Design, Architecture, and Culture, Environment, Culture, and Sustainability, and Global Cultures groups of Quadrant.

Official Website: https://events.umn.edu/021888