British professor backed by Natural Trust claims gardening is “racist”
(Natural News) A professor in the U.K. has claimed that gardening is a racist pastime rooted in class and privilege.
University of Leicester post-colonial literature professor Corinne Fowler said in her new book that the British countryside is a “terrain of inequalities.”
...In her book titled Green Unpleasant Land, the professor argued that botanical knowledge “has had deep colonial resonances” as many British estates were partly financed by colonialism and slavery.
She continued that the scientific classification of plants had “engaged in the same hierarchies of ‘race'” that justified colonial occupation and slavery.
Thus, Fowler posited that “gardens are matters of class and privilege.”...Read all.
