1st Edition

Vegetal Politics Belonging, practices and places

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human–plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition has been somewhat disconnected from conceptual advances in the social sciences, even those to which cultural geographers have made significant contributions. With a number of important exceptions, plant studies have been less explicitly part of more-than-human... Read more

1. Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places  Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison, Catherine Phillips and Kathleen Buckingham

2. Streets as new places to bring together both humans and plants: examples from Paris and Montpellier (France)  Patricia Pellegrini and Sandrine Baudry

3. Urban foraging and the relational ecologies of belonging  Melissa R. Poe, Joyce LeCompte, Rebecca McLain and Patrick Hurley

4. The matter of displacement: a queer urban ecology of New York City’s High Line  Darren J. Patrick

5. Attending to grape vines: perceptual practices, planty agencies and multiple temporalities in Australian viticulture  Jeremy Brice

Biography

Lesley Head is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Woolongong, Australia.

Jennifer Atchison is Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Catherine Phillips is Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Kathleen Buckingham is a researcher at the World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., USA, and a recent doctoral graduate of Oxford University, UK.