The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World

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The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World Editors: Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan, Patricia Vieira Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Lexington Books
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Pages: 326 Illustrations and other contents: 19 BW Photos Language: English ISBN: 9781498510592 Categories: , , , , , ,

The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants-defined by what they are thought to lack, including autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, arguably, intelligence-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetal beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.

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“Over fifty years ago Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring that our “attitude toward plants is a singularly narrow one.” This book offers readers in the humanities and sciences a more broadly conceived and sophisticated interdisciplinary conversation about plants. More significantly, the book reinvigorates a human dialogue with plants that has been displaced by modern cultural attitudes toward the vegetal world.” -- Mark C. Long, Keene State College

Author Biography

Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University. Monica Gagliano is research associate professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Western Australia. John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in communications and arts at Edith Cowan University.