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This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside,
John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental
poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene:
a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as
one part of the more-than-human world.
The 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. The leading metaphor of
the book-"the green thread", echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase "the
green fuse"-carries 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
single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only
encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies
dialogue. On another level, "the green thread" links creative and
historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal-a reality
reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short,
The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that
transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the
possibility of dialogue with plants.
The 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. The leading metaphor of
the book-"the green thread", echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase "the
green fuse"-carries 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
single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only
encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies
dialogue. On another level, "the green thread" links creative and
historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal-a reality
reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short,
The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that
transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the
possibility of dialogue with plants.
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities,
this book examines the cultural history of climate change under
three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change
compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical
understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge,
action and representations to the dimensions of geological and
evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions
our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer
histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories,
it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today
across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature
and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify
turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and
of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary
ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature
and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our
climatic modernity. This ground-breaking text will be of great
interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental
history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science,
literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as
well as all general readers interested in climate change.
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities,
this book examines the cultural history of climate change under
three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change
compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical
understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge,
action and representations to the dimensions of geological and
evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions
our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer
histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories,
it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today
across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature
and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify
turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and
of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary
ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature
and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our
climatic modernity. This ground-breaking text will be of great
interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental
history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science,
literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as
well as all general readers interested in climate change.
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