The Work That Plants Do : : Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies / / ed. by James Palmer, Franklin Ginn, Marion Ernwein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Atchison, Jennifer,; Brice, Jeremy,; Dalyan, Can,; Ernwein, Marion,; Ginn, Franklin,; Letouzey, Emilie,; Margulies, Jared,; Mustafa, Daanish,; Palmer, James,; Perkins, Harold,
• HerausgeberIn: Ernwein, Marion,; Ginn, Franklin,; Palmer, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism, examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation, social reproduction, and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geography, anthropology, and the environmental humanities, the contributors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich understandings of capitalist economies, and also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author biographies -- List of Figures -- Introduction: The work that plants do -- SECTION I Planty commodities -- Chapter 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture -- Chapter 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory -- Chapter 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan -- SECTION II Vegetal Labour -- Chapter 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature -- Chapter 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations -- Chapter 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture -- SECTION III Future-making with plants -- Chapter 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia -- Chapter 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South -- Chapter 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures -- Bibliography