The Political Beekeeper's Library ([S.l.] : Ostertorp, 2016)
The Political Beekeeper's Library is an effort to collect, organize and activate books where parallels are drawn between how bees and humans are socially and politically organized. The Political Beekeeper's Library includes around thirty titles. Broadly the books in the library reflect a historical development in which there has been a change from the bee society being described as a kingdom to the bee society being described as a democracy. Key books in the library are: History of Animals by Aristoteles (3th century BCE), in which the bee society is described as a monarchy with a King bee; The Feminine Monarchy by the English beekeeper Charles Butler (1609), which was among the first publications where the bee society is described as a monarchy with a Queen bee and not a king; and Honeybee Democracy by the American sociobiologist Thomas D. Seeley (2010), in which the bee society is described as a democracy where worker bees make decisions together.
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Keywords: Sjödin, Erik