The Green Thread : Dialogues with the Vegetal World

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The Green ThreadDialogues with the Vegetal World\nAuthor(s): Patrcia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan, Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Andrew Howe, Michael Marder, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Alan Read\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498510592, 978-1498510592\nSynopsis\nThe Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.\n\nThe leading metaphor of the bookthe green thread, echoing poet Dylan Thomas phrase the green fusecarries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, the green thread is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond.