Plant Life - The Entangled Politics of Afforestation

"Rosetta S. Elkin reveals that planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it. Plant Life exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social"--

List of contents

Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Artifact
1. The Problem of Parts
2. Great Green Wall
3. Genus Faidherbia
Index
4. Confronting Treelessness
5. Prairie States Forestry Project
6. Ulmus pumilaL.
Trace
7. Contextual Indifference
8. Three Norths Shelter System
9. Species Populus
Epilogue
Notes
Index

About the author

Rosetta S. Elkin is associate professor and academic director of landscape architecture at Pratt Institute, principal of Practice Landscape, and research associate at the Harvard Arnold Arboretum. She is author of Tiny Taxonomy: Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Rosetta S. Elkin
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781517912628
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1262-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology