Minke Hijmans

Minke Hijmans is a PhD researcher with the School of History at the University of St Andrews. She holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and a Master of Letters in Global Social and Political Thought. Her doctoral project traverses a global intellectual history of capitalist agriculture, enveloped by a story of two botanic gardens in India and Indonesia. She explores the multifaceted roles of gardening/food-production in occupying territory, cultivating exploitative economies, ‘planting’ colonial politics and rooting imperial ideology. These inform her central interests which orbit multi-species anti-colonial resistance, climate justice/sustainability, and any broadly creative, interdisciplinary research that critically imagines more viable futures.