Currently halfway in ruins, the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropical of Paris has a complicated history.
It was used to celebrate colonization, under the angle of agronomy. Even today, this history is put under the carpet, and few are the reflections or critics of this period, on site. The decay of the area is proof of that.
It was also an important center for the study of plants, nature and is a testimony of the evolution of architecture across time, as seen in this picture.
If it's alive today, it's mainly thanks to the mobilization of the children of the migrants that lived through that time.
It was used to celebrate colonization, under the angle of agronomy. Even today, this history is put under the carpet, and few are the reflections or critics of this period, on site. The decay of the area is proof of that.
It was also an important center for the study of plants, nature and is a testimony of the evolution of architecture across time, as seen in this picture.
If it's alive today, it's mainly thanks to the mobilization of the children of the migrants that lived through that time.
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Currently halfway in ruins, the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropical of Paris has a complicated history. It was used to celebrate colonization, under the angle of agronomy. Even today, this history is put under the carpet, and few are the reflections or critics of…
Walking through it today, you can be left clueless about it's history. Some panels talk about the name, past usage and architecture, but they is no mention about the political use that was made of it.
For example, the greenhouse was used to study the tobacco plants, chocolate trees and more, but it should of mentioned how, and at which cost, theses plans where brought back to Paris.
They are also places where the history of the different colonies is totally eclipsed. Starting in 1889, it was built at a time where the French Empire was looking for justifications. And doing so, it overlooked the role local people had in maintaining, growing and influencing the nature around them, that the French saw as savages.
Some of these people where even exposed as beasts in a zoo.
For example, the greenhouse was used to study the tobacco plants, chocolate trees and more, but it should of mentioned how, and at which cost, theses plans where brought back to Paris.
They are also places where the history of the different colonies is totally eclipsed. Starting in 1889, it was built at a time where the French Empire was looking for justifications. And doing so, it overlooked the role local people had in maintaining, growing and influencing the nature around them, that the French saw as savages.
Some of these people where even exposed as beasts in a zoo.
You can read more about it here : https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/aux-lecteurs-emancipes/article/070417/entre-les-ruines-du-passe-colonial
( in French )
( in French )
Club de Mediapart
Entre les ruines du passé colonial
« Jardin des colonies », de Thomas B. Reverdy et Sylvain Venayre n'est pas seulement une errance érudite à travers les ruines de notre passé colonial. Il reflète l'état d'esprit d'une époque, la nôtre.
Jardin d'agronomie tropicale de Paris
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuareg_1907.jpg
During the exposition of 1907, a Touareg Camp
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuareg_1907.jpg
During the exposition of 1907, a Touareg Camp
Jardin d'agronomie tropicale de Paris
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3APavillon_madagascar.JPG
The current state of the Pavillon du Congo.
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3APavillon_madagascar.JPG
The current state of the Pavillon du Congo.
A Developer's Notebook - Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server
https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/02/repurposing-android.html
https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/02/repurposing-android.html
lbrito.ca
Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server
A programmer's blog with posts about Ruby, web development, algorithms and data structure.
The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0205-y?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution
Read for free at : https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41477-018-0205-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0205-y?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution
Read for free at : https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41477-018-0205-y
Nature
The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon
Nature Plants - Fossil records suggest that the Amazon rainforest in the pre-Columbian era was home to polyculture agroforestry, with multiple annual crops providing subsistence for indigenous...