"Nature (and Politics)"
This paper addresses the leitmotif of Alan Holland’s work, which is argued here to be a defence of the existence and worth of nonhuman nature.
This paper addresses the leitmotif of Alan Holland’s work, which is argued here to be a defence of the existence and worth of nonhuman nature.
In this essay, Freya Mathews argues that the moral point of view involves a feeling for the inner reality of others and explains the consequences of this idea for other-than-human life forms and systems.
This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants).
This article looks at whether biocultural diversity be developed as a more totalising idea that is useful for historians.
Thneeds Reseeds, a sculptural artwork by Deanna Pindell, is a biotactical intervention aimed at exposing and derailing dominant regimes for managing sylvan life. The “thneeds” are fuzzy softball-sized sculptures made from old sweaters. Left in the forest, these sculptures constitute brightly-colored habitats for forest plants and animals.
The documentary film depicts the origins of plant hybridization in American farm-belt culture.
Raising Resistance tells the story of Paraguay’s small-scale farmers resistance against genetic soy enterprises.
Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees and communicates what she finds to non-scientists.
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.