Cultivating Heterotopia: Politics, Ideology, and Affect in Gardens
William A. Callahan, professor of International Relations at the LSE, discusses how gardens can provide new sites and sensibilities that complicate our understanding of politics. Although gardens are typically appreciated as peaceful spaces of apolitical serenity, he compares imperial gardens in China, Thailand, and Russia to examine how they heterotopically construct social order and world order. IHR seminar.
