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The floracrats : state-sponsored science and the failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia / Andrew Goss.
- Title
- The floracrats : state-sponsored science and the failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia / Andrew Goss.
- Author
- Goss, Andrew, Ph. D.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011.
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- Description
- xiv, 256 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 resourcesa̮bove 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. "--Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.
- Subject
- Botany, Economic > Political aspects > Indonesia
- Science and state > Indonesia > History
- Civil service > Indonesia > History
- Botanists > Indonesia > History
- Enlightenment > Indonesia > Influence
- Federal aid to research > Indonesia > History
- Politics, Practical
- Botany > economics
- Politics
- Science > history
- Colonialism > history
- Research Support as Topic
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- Botanique agricole > Aspect politique > Indonésie
- Politique scientifique et technique > Indonésie > Histoire
- Botanistes > Indonésie > Histoire
- Siècle des Lumières > Indonésie > Influence
- Politique
- Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle
- politics
- 02.01 history of science and culture
- Botanists
- Botany, Economic > Political aspects
- Civil service
- Enlightenment > Influence
- Federal aid to research
- Colonies > Administration
- Netherlandish colonies
- Science and state
- Kolonialismus
- Botanischer Garten
- Naturwissenschaften
- Biologie
- Botanik
- Landwirtschaft
- Bildungspolitik
- Wissenschaftsethik
- Postkolonialismus
- Science
- Scientists
- State (political science)
- Netherlands > Indonesia > Administration
- Indonesia
- Pays-Bas > Administration
- Indonesien
- Indonesia
- Genre/Form
- History.
- History (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Apostles of enlightenment -- Quinine science -- Treub's beautiful science -- Ethical professionals -- The nationalists' enlightenment -- Technocratic dreams -- Desk science.
- ISBN
- 9780299248642
- 029924864X
- 9780299248635
- 0299248631
- LCCN
- 2010012967
- OCLC
- 613991156
- SCSB-11943147
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library