The Work That Plants Do : : Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies / / ed. by James Palmer, Franklin Ginn, Marion Ernwein.
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 enrol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
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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