The Work That Plants Do
Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Author biographies
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List of Figures
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Introduction: The work that plants do
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SECTION I Planty commodities
Chapter 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture
Seiten 35 - 52 -
Chapter 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory
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Chapter 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan
Seiten 71 - 84 -
SECTION II Vegetal Labour
Chapter 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature
Seiten 87 - 104 -
Chapter 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations
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Chapter 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture
Seiten 123 - 146 -
SECTION III Future-making with plants
Chapter 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia
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Chapter 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South
Seiten 163 - 180 -
Chapter 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures
Seiten 181 - 192 -
Bibliography
Seiten 193 - 222
22 October 2021, 222 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5534-6
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