Vegetal Politics: Belonging, Practices and Places Contributor(s): Head, Lesley (Editor), Atchison, Jennifer (Editor), Phillips, Catherine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138935751 ISBN-13: 9781138935754 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $199.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Social Science | Human Geography |
Dewey: 304.27 |
Physical Information: 120 pages |
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Publisher Description: Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human-plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition has been somewhat disconnected from conceptual advances in the social sciences, even those to which cultural geographers have made significant contributions. With a number of important exceptions, plant studies have been less explicitly part of more-than-human geographies than have animal studies. This book aims to redress this gap, recognising plants and their multiple engagements with and beyond humans. Plants are not only fundamental to human survival, they play a key role in many of the most important environmental political issues of the century, including biofuels, carbon economies and food security. This innovative collection explores themes of belonging, practices and places. Together, the chapters suggest new kinds of 'vegetal politics', documenting both collaborative and conflictual relations between humans, plants and others. They open up new spaces of political action and subjectivity, challenging political frames that are confined to humans. The book also raises methodological questions and challenges for future research. This book was published as a special issue of Social and Economic Geography. |