Probiotic Planet - Using Life to Manage Life

"Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations"--

List of contents

Contents
Introduction: Life in the Anthropocene
1. The Probiotic Turn: Rewilding and Biome Restoration
2. Thinking like Gaia: The Science of the Probiotic Turn
3. Symbiopolitics: Governing through Keystone Species
4. Wild Experiments: The Controlled Decontrolling of Ecological Controls
5. Geographies of Dysbiosis: The Patchiness of the Probiotic Turn
6. Future-Pasts: The Temporalities of the Probiotic Turn
7. Probiotic Value: Putting Keystone Species to Work
Conclusions: A Spectrum of Probiotics
Acknowledgments
Glossary 
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jamie Lorimer is associate professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at University of Oxford. He is author of Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature (Minnesota, 2015).

Summary

"Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations"--

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Lorimer
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2020
• EAN: 9781517909215
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0921-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Posthumanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology