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Ingrained - A Human Bio-geography of Wheat (Paperback)
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Ingrained - A Human Bio-geography of Wheat (Paperback)
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Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our
food supply and contributing to the air we breathe, but they are
easy to take for granted and have received insufficient attention
in the social sciences. This book advances understanding of
human-plant relations using the example of wheat. Theoretically,
this book develops new insights by bringing together human
geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term
perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational,
more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of
plant-related studies, these have not yet fully engaged with the
question of what it means to be a plant. The book draws on diverse
literatures to tackle this question, advancing thinking about how
plants act in their worlds, and how we can better understand our
shared worlds. Empirically, the book reports original ethnographic
research on wheat production, processing and consumption in a
context of globalisation, drought and climate change and traces the
complex networks of wheat using a methodology of 'following' it and
its people. The ethnobotanical study captures a number of moments
in the life of Australian wheat; on the farm, at the supermarket,
in the lives of coeliac sufferers, in laboratories and in
industrial factories. This study demands new ways of thinking about
wheat geographies, going beyond the rural landscape to urban and
industrial frontiers, and being simultaneously local and global in
perspective and connection.
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