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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jamie LorimerPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517909215ISBN 10: 151790921 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 03 November 2020 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback 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 ContentsContents Introduction: Life in the Anthropocene 1. The Probiotic Turn: Rewilding and Biome Restoration 2. Thinking like Gaia: The Science of the Probiotic Turn 3. Symbiopolitics: Governing through Keystone Species 4. Wild Experiments: The Controlled Decontrolling of Ecological Controls 5. Geographies of Dysbiosis: The Patchiness of the Probiotic Turn 6. Future-Pasts: The Temporalities of the Probiotic Turn 7. Probiotic Value: Putting Keystone Species to Work Conclusions: A Spectrum of Probiotics Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis brilliant book delivers an incisive reading of probiotic cultural practices today-taking in everything from home fermentation to permaculture to rewilding. Jamie Lorimer expertly shows us that social and scientific projects that aim at re-calibrating microbial, bodily, and ecological worlds are experiments in the politics of symbiosis. In our days of viral peril, The Probiotic Planet is a vital reminder of the multiple futures biology may yet prepare. -Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond Moving between human intestines and forests patches, The Probiotic Planet maps a diverse and emerging terrain of ecological experimentation, both formal and vernacular. A transdisciplinary analysis that brings detailed attention to scientific practices into dialogue with critical social theory, this book is also a bold and important experiment in its own right. -Heather Anne Swanson, director, Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities This brilliant book delivers an incisive reading of probiotic cultural practices today-taking in everything from home fermentation to permaculture to rewilding. Jamie Lorimer expertly shows us that social and scientific projects that aim at re-calibrating microbial, bodily, and ecological worlds are experiments in the politics of symbiosis. In our days of viral peril, The Probiotic Planet is a vital reminder of the multiple futures biology may yet prepare. -Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond Moving between human intestines and forests patches, The Probiotic Planet maps a diverse and emerging terrain of ecological experimentation, both formal and vernacular. A transdisciplinary analysis that brings detailed attention to scientific practices into dialogue with critical social theory, this book is also a bold and important experiment in its own right. -Heather Anne Swanson, director, Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities The book is well referenced... and the text is supported by appropriate and readable tables and charts. -CHOICE Lorimer unravels the multiplicities of present-day scientific designs for the future. -Los Angeles Review of Books This brilliant book delivers an incisive reading of probiotic cultural practices today--taking in everything from home fermentation to permaculture to rewilding. Jamie Lorimer expertly shows us that social and scientific projects that aim at re-calibrating microbial, bodily, and ecological worlds are experiments in the politics of symbiosis. In our days of viral peril, The Probiotic Planet is a vital reminder of the multiple futures biology may yet prepare. --Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond Moving between human intestines and forests patches, The Probiotic Planet maps a diverse and emerging terrain of ecological experimentation, both formal and vernacular. A transdisciplinary analysis that brings detailed attention to scientific practices into dialogue with critical social theory, this book is also a bold and important experiment in its own right. --Heather Anne Swanson, director, Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities Author InformationJamie Lorimer is associate professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at University of Oxford. He is author of Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature (Minnesota, 2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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