UID:
almafu_9960947905202883
Format:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-5534-0
Series Statement:
Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; Band 45
Content:
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.
Note:
Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Author biographies 9 List of Figures 13 Introduction: The work that plants do 15 Chapter 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture 35 Chapter 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory 53 Chapter 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan 71 Chapter 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature 87 Chapter 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations 105 Chapter 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture 123 Chapter 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia 149 Chapter 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South 163 Chapter 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures 181 Bibliography 193
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-5534-2
Language:
English
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