Banu Subramaniam

Title

Banu Subramaniam

Birth Date

1966

Birthplace

India

Primary Sources

Subramaniam, B. (2024). Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism. University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752464/botany-of-empire/

Subramaniam, B. (2024). Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19. In E. Alam, D. Roberts & N. Shibley (Eds.), Ordering the Human: Global Science and Racial Reason (pp. 295-314). Columbia University Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.7312/alam20732-016/html

Subramaniam, B., & Chatterjee, S. (2024). Translations in Green: Colonialiam, Postcolonialism, and the Vegetal Turn. Configurations, 32(1), 1-23. 

Subramaniam, B., & Bartlett, M. (2023). Re-imagining Reproduction: The Queer Possibilities of Plants. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 63(4) 946-959. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad012

Subramaniam, B. (2019). Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism. University of Washington Press.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dn27

Subramaniam, B. (2017). Recolonizing India: Troubling The Anti-Colonial, Decolonial, Postcolonial. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 3(1), 10-13.
https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v3i1.28794.

Subramaniam, B. (2015). Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Biologies: Gender and the Promises of Biotechnology. Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, 17(1), 15-36. Accessed June 9, 2023.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323083653.pdf

Subramaniam, B. (2014). Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p080241


Secondary Sources

Hamilton, J., Subramaniam, B. & Willey, A., (2017). What Indians and Indians Can Teach Us about Colonization: Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Epistemological Imperialism, and the Politics of Difference. Feminist Studies, 43(3), 612-623.

Mayberry, M., Subramaniam, B., & Weasel, L. H. (eds.). (2001). Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation. Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203614266

Extra Resources

Banu Subramaniam’s ‘Decolonising Botany’. YouTube. Accessed September 15, 2022. https://youtu.be/rM6CNB3l7jc.

Citation

“Banu Subramaniam,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 23, 2026, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/420.

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