The Work That Plants Do: Life, Labour and the Future of Vegetal Economies (Sozial- und Kulturgeographie)

Whether driven by developments in plant science bio-philosophy or broader societal dynamics plants have to respond to a litany of environmental social and economic challenges. This collection explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation social reproduction and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geography anthropology and the environmental humanities the contributors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich understandings of capitali st economies and also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.