On the Ground : : Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics / / O'neil Van Horn.

A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene.Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionat...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Interlude: The Differences of Our Soils, the Soils of Our Differences
  • 1. Planting: Ground Is Not Foundation
  • Interlude: Poetics at the Edge
  • 2. Rooting: Terrestrial Theopoetics of and for the Planetary
  • Interlude: Mountaintop Removal and the Impossibility of Hope
  • 3. Sprouting: Dark Hope in Undecidable Times
  • Interlude: Seeds and the Subversive Act of Sowing
  • 4. Blooming: (De)Compositional Planetary Politics
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index