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.
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 8 Marion Ernwein, James Palmer, Franklin Ginn
Author biographies Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 12 Marion Ernwein, James Palmer, Franklin Ginn
List of Figures Kein Zugriff Seiten 13 - 14 Marion Ernwein, James Palmer, Franklin Ginn
Introduction: The work that plants do Kein Zugriff Seiten 15 - 32 Marion Ernwein, James Palmer, Franklin Ginn
Chapter 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture Kein Zugriff Seiten 35 - 52 Emilie Letouzey
Chapter 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory Kein Zugriff Seiten 53 - 70 Jared Margulies
Chapter 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan Kein Zugriff Seiten 71 - 84 Daanish Mustafa, Franklin Ginn
Chapter 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature Kein Zugriff Seiten 87 - 104 Harold Perkins
Chapter 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations Kein Zugriff Seiten 105 - 122 Marion Ernwein
Chapter 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture Kein Zugriff Seiten 123 - 146 Jeremy Brice
Chapter 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 162 Jennifer Atchison
Chapter 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South Kein Zugriff Seiten 163 - 180 James Palmer
Chapter 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures Kein Zugriff Seiten 181 - 192 Can Dalyan
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 193 - 222 Marion Ernwein, James Palmer, Franklin Ginn
