Saving More Than Seeds

Catherine Phillips is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

'Saving More Than Seeds is so much more than about seeds and seed saving. Phillips’ captivating account of the competing relational materialities that lie at the site of food production informs not only our understanding of what we eat but teaches us something important about ourselves.’ Michael S. Carolan, Colorado State University, USA ’Saving More Than Seeds is a remarkable book. It lives up to its title: through the optic of a seed, Catherine Phillips opens worlds of practices, conflicts, and meaning. She reveals the tough business of corporate seed mongering as well as the convivial networks of individuals dedicated to saving bio-diversities of plant and human lives. Phillips writes with ease across the uneven terrain of new geographical theories, the political economics of seeds, and the worlds where seeds themselves still matter.’ Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney, Australia and author of Oceanic Entanglements '...a welcome and important addition to the literature on the modern seed industry and food movements...Phillips covers her topic in depth, producing a thoroughly researched, well written, and well structured work.' Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

• Chapter 1 Starting with Seed; Chapter 2 Rethinking Practice, Agency and Worldly Engagements; Chapter 3 Reordering with Corporations; Chapter 4 Configuring Rights; Chapter 5 Securing Accessions; Chapter 6 Learning Seed Saving; Chapter 7 Reconstituting Worlds Together; Chapter 8 Resisting, Remaking and More; Chapter 9 Concluding Thoughts;