Vegetal Futures
How Plants Shape Worlds to Come
Vegetal Futures
How Plants Shape Worlds to Come
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Bringing together a diverse interdisciplinary team of academics and artists, this book reveals how plants shape future-making practices across cultures, societies, and technologies, and explores why this matters now.
The future cannot be thought of without considering the material contexts in which it is produced, particularly in the context of the climate crisis. This book argues that anticipating and planning for the future needs to be more inclusive of nonhuman work. By focusing on plants and asking what happens when we platform plants as partners in making the future, this explores how vegetal powers support, boycott, or supplant human-centred ventures.
Bringing together a global team of authors, Vegetal Futures examines how different forms of governance, technology, practice, and thought associated with plants intervene in the world to shape the future. From fieldwork with Muslim beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to houseplant bio capitalism, chapters cover a diverse range of vegetal subjects across time and place, asking critical questions throughout, such as what resources might be necessary to rethink power relations inherent in species hierarchy, democratising plant and human life? What kinds of institutions would be necessary for such a project, and what are the impacts of such conceptions?
This book explains why we cannot attempt to envision the future without plants.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Queer future and plant time: World making with(out) reproduction
Joela Jacobs
Chapter Two
Trans/plants in speculative fiction: Thinking across bodies, minds, and plants from queer and trans perspectives
Timothy S. Miller
Chapter Three
The world after: Bees, robobees and plant futures
Larisa Jasarevic
Chapter Four
Magical herbalism: Summoning plant powers to manifest the future
Giulia Carabelli
PART TWO – Contesting capitalist futures
Chapter Five
Do hydroponic herbs dream of the sun? Speculative futures through vegetal HydroPoetics
Katy Connor & Franklin Ginn
Chapter Six
The many lives and times of seeds
Helene Schulze
Chapter Seven
Anticipatory action and vegetal resistance within aroidmania
Matthew Beach
Chapter Eight
Biocapital futures: Patenting life against the commons
Gabriella Demczuk
PART THREE – Reworking the past: Planty legacies for the future
Chapter Nine
'I talk to my plants': the Victorian plant lady's cross-species amities
Ann Garascia
Chapter Ten
Mixed feelings: The intricacies of futures made in the botanic garden
Cornelia Ertl
Chapter Eleven
Where wheat and olive sing: Folklore, ecocide and Indigenous futurity in Palestine
Sarah Sinno
Chapter Twelve
Arboreal futures: Centering roots and relations in the conservation politics of northeast India
Aparajita Majumdar
Chapter Thirteen
Isale's futures: Reckoning with dispossession's wounds
Stacey Langwick
Chapter Fourteen
An autohistoria of cosmopolitical learnings from plant people
Imayna Caceres
Product details
| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350567313 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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