Green Thread (eBook)

Dialogues with the Vegetal World

Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan, Patricia Vieira (Herausgeber)

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2015
1 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-9787-8872-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book-"e;the green thread"e;, echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase "e;the green fuse"e;-carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, "e;the green thread"e; is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, "e;the green thread"e; links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal-a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2015
• Co-Autor: Tom Bristow, Christa Sommerer, Hannah Stark, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Pansy Duncan, Andrew Howe, Michael Marder, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Alan Read, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-9787-8872-X / 197878872X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9787-8872-5 / 9781978788725