The Work That Plants Do: Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies

Marion Ernwein; James Palmer; Franklin Ginn

doi:10.14361/9783839455340

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-5534-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-5534-0
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie
Volume: 45
Language: English
Pages: 222
Product type: Edited Book

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Acknowledgements No access Pages 7 - 8
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Author biographies No access Pages 9 - 12
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List of Figures No access Pages 13 - 14
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Introduction: The work that plants do No access Pages 15 - 32
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Chapter 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture No access Pages 35 - 52
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Chapter 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory No access Pages 53 - 70
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Chapter 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan No access Pages 71 - 84
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Chapter 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature No access Pages 87 - 104
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Chapter 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations No access Pages 105 - 122
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Chapter 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture No access Pages 123 - 146
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Chapter 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia No access Pages 149 - 162
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Chapter 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South No access Pages 163 - 180
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Chapter 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures No access Pages 181 - 192
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Bibliography No access Pages 193 - 222
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