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SUMMARY:Situating vegetal lives in political ecology: from plantationocene
  to planthroposcene - Anna Lawrence\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Rogelio Luque-Lora
DESCRIPTION:This week’s seminar uses as its departure point the ongoing 
 debate surrounding how best to situate Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing’s co
 ncept of the ‘Plantationocene’ in order to avoid a multispecies flatte
 ning of relations – in particular those relations determined by race. Wh
 en dealing with a multispecies framework within political ecology\, it is 
 often easier to locate animal actors than plants both ethically and politi
 cally. Vegetal agency is harder to translate and make legible\, whilst pla
 nt lives are inherently valued far less than animal lives due in part to t
 heir mutable bodily boundaries which complicate our western conceptions of
  what constitutes an ‘individual’. How\, then\, might we rehabilitate 
 the vegetal as a political actor whilst guarding against a flattening of r
 elations? What might recent work in the emerging transdisciplinary field o
 f critical plant studies have to offer those of us working with or among p
 lants? In asking these questions\, we shall wend our way to Natasha Myers
 ’ invitation to seed ‘planthroposcenes’ in attending to plants as wo
 rld-makers\, centring them in our attempts to reimagine sustainable future
 s.\n\nSuggested reading: https://www.tea-assembly.com/issues/2020/9/22/see
 ding-planthroposcenes 
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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