Shaped by Vegetal Matters

Phyto-Influence on Humans, Other Animals, and Place

Elizabeth Oriel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666940527 (ISBN)

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Tracing lines of vegetal influence and affect, this book describes how plants influence and shape humans and relationships on the land. The author uses four case studies to reveal multi-directional influences across situated multispecies social milieus and finds poiesis as weaving phyto-human connections.

Tracing lines of vegetal influence and affect, Shaped by Vegetal Matters: Phyto-Influence on Humans, Other Animals, and Place describes how plants influence and shape humans, their relations with other animals, and place. Highlighting vegetal matters related to four plant species and the triad of plants-elephants-humans in Sri Lanka, each case study opens up multi-directional influences across situated multispecies social milieus. From jacaranda trees in Australia, to wapato on a river island in the United States, to willow and weavers in Denmark, to sugarcane plantations in Sri Lanka, to dying yet mythic ash trees, features emerge of human-plant social intimacies, power dynamics, and intersubjectivities. A central glue of plant-human relations is poiesis, meaning the creation of something new, yet etymologically related to the poetic. Beyond explorations of poiesis, the vegetal offers an epistemology of recursion that is relevant for understanding place-based relationships. Elizabeth Oriel presents vegetal influence in analytical and descriptive styles, reflecting multispecies ethnography and other analytics brought to vegetal matters.

Elizabeth Oriel received her PhD in global studies from the University of London. She is currently based at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Introduction: Shaped by Vegetal Matters: Phyto-Influences on Humans, Other Animals, and Place
Chapter 1: Vegetal Matters Shaping Human-Elephant Relations and Coexistence
Chapter 2: Jacaranda Trees’ Affective Placemaking
Chapter 3: Wapato and Camas: Plant Influences on Wapato Island
Chapter 4: Social Worlds of Willow Basketry
Chapter 5: Ash Tree Worlding
Conclusion: Vegetal Influences and Meeting of the Minds
References
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Plant Studies
Co-Autor	Anna Perdibon
Zusatzinfo	14 BW Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781666940527 / 9781666940527
Zustand	Neuware