The Work That Plants Do: Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies
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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. Contents Acknowledgements Author biographies List of Figures Introduction: The work that plants do • Marion Ernwein, James Palmer, Franklin Ginn Section I: Planty commodities 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture • Emilie Letouzey 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory • Jared Margulies 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan • Franklin Ginn & Daanish Mustafa Section II: Vegetal Labour 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature • Harold Perkins 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations • Marion Ernwein 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture • Jeremy Brice Section III: Future-making with plants 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia • Jennifer Atchison 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South • James Palmer 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures • Can Dalyan Bibliography
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