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29 produkter
Time Is a Plant
Häftad, 2023
398 kr
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“Our” world is vegetal. None of it would have been in existence were it not for the life activity of plants. Time, discernible in the rhythms, intervals, logics, articulations, and disarticulations of the world, is the time of plants. Starting from scientific, philosophical, and theological …
Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan
Av Iping Liang
Inbunden, 2024
1285 kr
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Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, …
Shaped by Vegetal Matters
Phyto-Influence on Humans, Other Animals, and Place
Inbunden, 2025
1153 kr
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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 …
Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics
Deleuze, Guattari, and Mathema of Vegetality
Inbunden, 2024
1143 kr
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Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics takes a deep dive into the stratified and rigidly segmented territorialities of Plant Humanities or Critical Plant Studies. It strikes up an epistemic departure from the arboreal structures of “plant-thinking” and subsequently lays out “plant-becoming” …
Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath
Inbunden, 2024
1233 kr
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Dilek Bulut Sarikaya scrutinizes human-plant entanglement in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath from the perspective of critical plant studies, which is committed to restoring the lost connection between humans and plants. The author offers a theoretical reading of Hardy and Plath’s …
Representations of Plants in Australian Literature
From the feared to the Revered
Av Lesley Hawkes, Douglas A. Vakoch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1601 kr
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Australia has some of the most unusual and unique plants in the world and today many of these plants are appreciated and valued. However, this has not always been the case. Through Australia’s colonial and settler history plants have been misunderstood, cursed, and demonised. There was also a total …
John Dewey, Ecology, and the Botanical Bases of Experiential Goodness
Av Sarah Warren, Douglas A. Vakoch
Inbunden, 2027
1682 kr
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Developments within continental philosophy and humanistic theory within the 21st century have increasingly turned to more embodied, including ecologically-attuned, accounts of the basis of experience, acting as a corrective to social constructivist views that foreground distinctively linguistic and …
Verdant Narratives
The Botanical Tapestry of Italian Cinema and Literature
Inbunden, 2028
1302 kr
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Verdant Narratives: The Botanical Tapestry of Italian Cinema and Literature offers a timely, interdisciplinary examination of botanical agency as a symbolic and aesthetic force in Italian literature and Italian cinema. This work critiques the traditional notion of plants as merely sessile and …
Plant Narratives in Variegated Ecosystems
Readings from India's Northeast
Inbunden, 2027
1601 kr
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Altered climatic patterns, rising sea level, denuding green cover and extinction of species have thrown environmental ecosystems into disarray worldwide and affected in multifarious ways life on earth, human and vegetal, in all its intersections and entanglements. This book project explores these …
Floral Metaphors on the Silver Screen
Plants as Allegory, Metaphor, and Fable in Cinema
Inbunden, 2027
1133 kr
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Through meticulous analysis of transnational film exemplars, this book delves into the multi-dimensional role of plants, transcending cultural boundaries to convey allegorical, metaphorical, and fable-like elements. By dissecting the narratives and visual storytelling of these films, the monograph …
Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society
Av Arun Makal, Gour Gopal Satpati
Inbunden, 2026
1143 kr
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Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society provides a significant contribution to the broad academic fields of ethnomedicine, environment, and sustainable development. It presents empirical studies, theoretical understandings of …
Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society
Av Arun Makal, Gour Gopal Satpati
E-bok, 2026
1247 kr
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Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society provides a significant contribution to the broad academic fields of ethnomedicine, environment, and sustainable development. It presents empirical studies, theoretical understandings of …
Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture
Av Janet Janzen
Häftad, 2016
1644 kr
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In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature …
Plant Contract
Art’s Return to Vegetal Life
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art …
Forest Family
Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Häftad, 2018
1116 kr
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Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary …
Why Look at Plants?
The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art
Inbunden, 2019
3484 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the …
Flowers and Honeybees
A Study of Morality In Nature
Häftad, 2020
862 kr
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Can we discover morality in nature? Flowers and Honeybees extends the considerable scientific knowledge of flowers and honeybees through a philosophical discussion of the origins of morality in nature. Flowering plants and honeybees form a social group where each requires the other. They do not …
Being Algae
Transformations in Water, Plants
Av Yogi Hendlin
Inbunden, 2024
3039 kr
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Water plants of all sizes, from the 60-meter long Pacific Ocean giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) to the micro ur-plant blue-green algae, deserve attention from critical plant studies. This is the first book in environmental humanities to approach algae, swimming across the sciences, humanities, …
Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2025
3226 kr
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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 …
Plant Poetics
Literary Forms and Functions of the Vegetal
Inbunden, 2025
2891 kr
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Plant Poetics explores the forms and functions of the vegetal across a broad body of literature. From Homer to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and from Jamaica Kincaid to Esther Kinsky, the contributions to this volume trace plants in literary works from around the world. Based on nuanced theoretical …
Plants and Literature
Essays in Critical Plant Studies
Av Randy Laist
Häftad, 2013
1715 kr
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Myth, art, literature, film, and other discourses are replete with depictions of evil plants, salvific plants, and human-plant hybrids. In various ways, these representations intersect with “deep-rooted” insecurities about the place of human beings in the natural world, the relative viability of …
Co-Creating Speculative Ecosystems
Art, Science, and the Invasive Plant Being
E-bok, 2026
1247 kr
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Focusing on four plant species in the riparian landscapes of Galicia (Northern Spain), this book examines the ecological, conceptual, artistic, and material reality of exotic-invasive plants and the traces they leave behind after land management processes. Rather than treating these individuals as …
Co-Creating Speculative Ecosystems
Art, Science, and the Invasive Plant Being
Inbunden, 2026
1131 kr
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Focusing on four plant species in the riparian landscapes of Galicia (Northern Spain), this book examines the ecological, conceptual, artistic, and material reality of exotic–invasive plants and the traces they leave behind after land management processes. Rather than treating these individuals as …
Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
Av Molly Kugel
Inbunden, 2027
1131 kr
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This book examines the ways in which Victorian flora and garden culture and the amateur botany movement influenced and circumscribed American feminine poetics from the late Transcendental period to the early Modern period. Delineating an ecofeminist tradition, as well as a variety of other …
Plantiness
How Plants Make Us Human
Inbunden, 2026
1131 kr
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Plants have always shaped what it means to be human, changing our behaviours, settlementpatterns, and our relations with the world. Taking inspiration from ethnobotany, human geography, and anthropology, plantiness is a theoretical framework for understanding plant liveliness, intelligence, and …
Vegetal Anima
Why Plant Studies Now?
Av Sushmita Chatterjee, Banu Subramaniam
Inbunden, 2027
1273 kr
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This volume is a critical examination of the sudden burgeoning of plant studies across the disciplines. From ecocriticism that features fantastical plants, biological studies and concerns about changing plant biodiversity, environmental focus on the role of plants in mitigating climate change, …
Plantiness
How Plants Make Us Human
E-bok, 2026
1220 kr
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Plants have always shaped what it means to be human, changing our behaviours, settlementpatterns, and our relations with the world. Taking inspiration from ethnobotany, human geography, and anthropology, plantiness is a theoretical framework for understanding plant liveliness, intelligence, and …
Gardening in the British Isles (1830–1950)
Growing Agency in a Democratizing Society
Inbunden, 2027
1392 kr
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Gardening in the British Isles (1830–1950). Growing Agency in a Democratising Society explores the power dynamics that took root and flourished in nineteenth- and twentieth-century gardens in the British Isles. Examining a wide range of gardens (from private plots and nurseries to school gardens …
Plantation’s Gardens in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature
A Politics of (Up)Rooting
Av Niall Peach
Inbunden, 2027
1210 kr
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With an interdisciplinary approach to the agri-biopolitical regulation of life that centers on the early to mid-nineteenth-century rise of monoculture and the plantation model, this book turns to key Romantic literature imagined as agricultural novels to propose a new environmental aesthetic built …
