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OverviewHow afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants In Plant Life, Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including grasslands, prairies, and drylands. 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. Using three supracontinental case studies-scientific forestry in the American prairies, colonial control in Africa's Sahelian grasslands, and Chinese efforts to control and administer territory-Elkin explores the political implications of plant life as a tool of environmentalism. By exposing the human tendency to fix or solve environmental matters by exploiting other organisms, this work exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social. Plant Life ultimately reveals that afforestation cannot offset deforestation, an important distinction that sheds light on current environmental trends that suggest we can plant our way out of climate change. By radicalizing what conservation protects and by framing plants in their total aliveness, Elkin shows that there are many kinds of life-not just our own-to consider when advancing environmental policy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rosetta S. ElkinPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9781517912611ISBN 10: 151791261 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 17 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsIn Plant Life, the misadventures of tree planting campaigns around the world expose a fundamental failure to understand things that are alive. Human cultivation--a blunt apparatus often focused only on an above-ground outcropping--usually manages to kill plants. Rosetta S. Elkin's lush and stringent narratives travel instead within the roots and ramifying relationships that huge forests and grasslands generate when they are simply allowed to grow--a live rhizosphere in the crust of the earth. --Keller Easterling, Yale University With climate change comes a recognition that we are part of a global landscape and that we need to think at this scale. However, even as we need to 'think global, act local, ' what Rosetta S. Elkin shows in her in her deep and multi-faceted reading of afforestation projects is that in doing so we must really 'think local, act global.' --Julian Raxworthy, University of Canberra In Plant Life, the misadventures of tree planting campaigns around the world expose a fundamental failure to understand things that are alive. Human cultivation-a blunt apparatus often focused only on an above-ground outcropping-usually manages to kill plants. Rosetta S. Elkin's lush and stringent narratives travel instead within the roots and ramifying relationships that huge forests and grasslands generate when they are simply allowed to grow-a live rhizosphere in the crust of the earth. -Keller Easterling, Yale University With climate change comes a recognition that we are part of a global landscape and that we need to think at this scale. However, even as we need to 'think global, act local,' what Rosetta S. Elkin shows in her in her deep and multi-faceted reading of afforestation projects is that in doing so we must really 'think local, act global.' -Julian Raxworthy, University of Canberra In Plant Life, the misadventures of tree planting campaigns around the world expose a fundamental failure to understand things that are alive. Human cultivation--a blunt apparatus often focused only on an above-ground outcropping--usually manages to kill plants. Rosetta S. Elkin's lush and stringent narratives travel instead within the roots and ramifying relationships that huge forests and grasslands generate when they are simply allowed to grow--a live rhizosphere in the crust of the earth. --Keller Easterling, Yale University With climate change comes a recognition that we are part of a global landscape and that we need to think at this scale. However, even as we need to 'think global, act local, ' what Rosetta S. Elkin shows in her in her deep and multi-faceted reading of afforestation projects is that in doing so we must really 'think local, act global.' --Julian Raxworthy, University of Canberra Author InformationRosetta 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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