Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene

Ratul Nandi, Jagannath Basu, Jayjit Sarkar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72063-3 (ISBN)

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Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene is an edited collection that redefines the boundaries of phytocentric scholarship. By foregrounding the question of the Anthropocene at the centre of plant studies, this book illustrates how attentiveness to plant life can allow our habitual anthropocentric/instrumental assumptions to be invaded by a unique ‘phytocentric’ impression that presents a new ethical imaginary for a human-plant relationship. With eleven carefully argued essays, this book sets a new benchmark in the field of Critical Plant Studies.

Ratul Nandi (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of English at Siliguri College, West Bengal, India. His areas of interest include the nonhuman agency and the role of arts and literature, animal studies, environmental humanities and continental philosophy. He is the author of Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking (2025). Jagannath Basu (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Sitalkuchi College, India. He is the editor of The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing (2021) and Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics and Literature (2021). Jayjit Sarkar (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (2019).

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Alexandra M. Peck

Part 1: Human-Plant and Territoriality

Charles Edenshaw’s “Fungus Man” Platters and Tlingit Grave Effigies: Exploring Human-Fungus Relationships through Agarikon Art

Alexandra M. Peck

How to Coexist: the Teaching of the Plant Kingdom at the Universities of Coimbra and Salamanca (XVIII–XIX)

Carlos Alves

Tēichigi Colors of Artistic Resistance

James Jack

Plant-Thinking and Critical Pedagogy in Costa Rica: The Revolutionary Praxis of Carmen Lyra

Juan Manuel Ávila Conejo

Part 2: Human-Plant and the Literary

The Root of the Problem: How Trees Can Be Utilized in Climate Change Literature to Depict the Interconnectedness of Past, Present and Future

Andrea Färber

Multispecies Exchange Rates: Multicultural Plant Entanglement in The Embrace of the Serpent

Jacob Price

Enchanting Encounters with Plants in Reshma Aquil and Sumana Roy’s Poems

Nesrin Eruysal

Flowering-with the Silence of Plant: Affective Attuning to the Vegetal Event in Tang Poetry

Perkus Leung

Part 3: Human-Plant and Transfiguration

Vegetal Apophasis: Reclaiming Dark Intimacies and Un/knowing with Plants

Clara Soudan

To Be a Pixel Flower: Player-Plant Entanglement in Video Games

Carolin Becklas

Theatrics of the West, and Geopolitical Economy in the Plantationocene: Opium Poppy and Its Nation-Based Phenomenological Understanding

Sindhura Dutta

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Plant Studies ; 9
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	587 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	90-04-72063-4 / 9004720634
ISBN-13	978-90-04-72063-3 / 9789004720633
Zustand	Neuware