Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72063-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Critical Plant Studies

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 habitual anthropocentric/instrumental assumptions to be invaded by a unique ‘phytocentric’ impression that presents a new ethical imaginary for a human-plant relationship. With eleven carefully argued essays, this book sets a new benchmark in the field of Critical Plant Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nandi, Ratul

Basu, Jagannath

Sarkar, Jayjit

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Gartenbau
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction Alexandra M. Peck

Part 1: Human-Plant and Territoriality

Charles Edenshaw’s “Fungus Man” Platters and Tlingit Grave Effigies: Exploring Human-Fungus Relationships through Agarikon Art Alexandra M. Peck

How to Coexist: the Teaching of the Plant Kingdom at the Universities of Coimbra and Salamanca (XVIII–XIX) Carlos Alves

Teichigi Colors of Artistic Resistance James Jack

Plant-Thinking and Critical Pedagogy in Costa Rica: The Revolutionary Praxis of Carmen Lyra Juan Manuel Ávila Conejo

Part 2: Human-Plant and the Literary

The Root of the Problem: How Trees Can Be Utilized in Climate Change Literature to Depict the Interconnectedness of Past, Present and Future Andrea Färber

Multispecies Exchange Rates: Multicultural Plant Entanglement in The Embrace of the Serpent Jacob Price

Enchanting Encounters with Plants in Reshma Aquil and Sumana Roy’s Poems Nesrin Eruysal

Flowering-with the Silence of Plant: Affective Attuning to the Vegetal Event in Tang Poetry Perkus Leung

Part 3: Human-Plant and Transfiguration

Vegetal Apophasis: Reclaiming Dark Intimacies and Un/knowing with Plants Clara Soudan

To Be a Pixel Flower: Player-Plant Entanglement in Video Games Carolin Becklas

Theatrics of the West, and Geopolitical Economy in the Plantationocene: Opium Poppy and Its Nation-Based Phenomenological Understanding Sindhura Dutta

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ratul Nandi (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of English at Siliguri College, West Bengal, India. His areas of interest include the nonhuman agency and the role of arts and literature, animal studies, environmental humanities and continental philosophy. He is the author of Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking (2025).

Jagannath Basu (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Sitalkuchi College, India. He is the editor of The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing (2021) and Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics and Literature (2021).

Jayjit Sarkar (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (2019).