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Author
Farley, Simon
Title
Flora and failure: A history of plants and people on the Parkville campus
In
Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne
Editors
Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton
Imprint
Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 2024, pp. 6-21
ISBN/ISSN
9780522881059
Url
https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback
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Print
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Abstract

Quote, pages 6-7: "The University's oldest and premier campus is predicated on an immense act of ecological transformation. This chapter considers that transformation with particular regard to plants and to those who study them. The latter is as imporatnt as the former: colonisation engendered not only ecological change but epistemic change too. When Ngamajet (settlers) razed woodlands and drained wetlands, Wurundjeri knowledge of plant communities was left fragmented and marginalised within the settler paradigm. Throughout the institution's history, the University of Melbourne's botanists have largely ignored and overwritten the botanical knowledges of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and other Indigenous peoples."

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ASBS15132

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  • Gillbank, Linden, From System Garden to Scientific Research: The University of Melbourne's School of Botany under its First Two Professors (1906-1973) (Parkville, Vic.: School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 2010), 38 pp. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, '"A Taste for Botanic Science": Ferdinand Mueller's Female Collectors and the History of Australian Botany', Muelleria, 32 (2014), 72-91. Details
  • Presland, Gary, Place for a Village: How Nature has Shaped the City of Melbourne (Melbourne: Museum Victoria Publishing, 2008), 265 pp. Details
  • Presland, Gary, First People: the Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria (Melbourne: Museum Victoria Publishing, 2010), 168 pp. Details
  • Scott, Ernest, A History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1936), 226 pp. Details

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