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Ethnomedicinal Practices And Application Of Traditional Medicinal Plants In Contemporary Indian Society

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 This book provides an opportunity for students, academicians, and researchers in India and around the World to develop their concept on application of indigenous medicinal plants and traditional medical practices of various ethnic groups across India.
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Plants And Literature - Essays In Critical Plant Studies

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 Myth, art, literature, film, and other discourses are replete with depictions of evil plants, salvific plants, and human-plant hybrids. In various ways, these representations intersect with "deep-rooted" insecurities about the place of human beings in the natural world, the relative viability of animalian motility and heterotrophy as evolutionary strategies, as well as the identity of organic life as such. Plants surprise us by combining the appearance of harmlessness and familiarity with an underlying strangeness. The otherness of vegetal life poses a challenge to our ethical, philosophical, and existential categories and tests the limits of human empathy and imagination. At the same time, the resilience of plants, their adaptability, and their integration with their habitat are a perennial source of inspiration and wisdom. Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies examines the manner in which literary texts and other cultural products express our multifaceted relationship with the vegetable kingdom. The range of perspectives brought to bear on the subject of plant life by the various authors and critics represented in this volume comprise a novel vision of ecological interdependence and stimulate a revitalized sensitivity to the relationships we share with our photosynthetic brethren.
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Plant Poetics - Literary Forms And Functions Of The Vegetal

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 Plant Poetics explores the forms and functions of the vegetal across a broad body of literature. From Homer to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and from Jamaica Kincaid to Esther Kinsky, the contributions to this volume trace plants in literary works from around the world. Based on nuanced theoretical and historical groundwork, these readings bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on literary and cultural plant studies. The volume shows how vegetal beings have impacted the ways humans think about narrative time, genre, and writing as a literary practice. Plant Poetics illustrates the capacity of plants to make (literary) worlds and shape their forms.
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Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking With Plants In The Anthropocene

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 Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene is an edited collection that redefines the boundaries of phytocentric scholarship. By foregrounding the question of the Anthropocene at the centre of plant studies, this book illustrates how attentiveness to plant life can allow our habitual anthropocentric/instrumental assumptions to be invaded by a unique 'phytocentric' impression that presents a new ethical imaginary for a human-plant relationship. With eleven carefully argued essays, this book sets a new benchmark in the field of Critical Plant Studies.
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Time Is A Plant

by Michael Marder

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 "Our" world is vegetal. None of it would have been in existence were it not for the life activity of plants. Time, discernible in the rhythms, intervals, logics, articulations, and disarticulations of the world, is the time of plants. Starting from scientific, philosophical, and theological insights into the time of plants, Michael Marder's new study gently steers readers toward the vegetality of time. Specters and spirits, cosmic trees and phytogenesis, the vegetal apriori and weird chronos, the seeds of events and the branches of divergent chronologies, diachronic phases and symbiotic assemblages join the rich tapestry of this work to proclaim, Time is a plant! "Michael Marder's Time Is a Plant is philosophy at its most productive. As far as imaginable from the postmodern conundrum, it states its premise openly in its title and elaborates it in a clear way with impeccable logic. The life of a plant in all its alterations, its generation and decay, is treated as more than just a metaphor of time: it renders visible the innermost structure of the deployment of time. What makes Marder's book unique is the very feature that makes it naive in the best sense of the term: Marder ignores all the endless self-reflexive precautions that characterize much of contemporary thought and simply plunges into basic ontological considerations. Time Is a Plant is a breath of fresh air in our stale philosophical scene. It proves that a thing can be done by simply doing it." -Slavoj Zizek, author of Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed (2022) and Freedom: A Disease without Cure (2023)
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Flowers And Honeybees - A Study Of Morality In Nature

by Christopher Ketcham

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 Can we discover morality in nature? Flowers and Honeybees extends the considerable scientific knowledge of flowers and honeybees through a philosophical discussion of the origins of morality in nature. Flowering plants and honeybees form a social group where each requires the other. They do not intentionally harm each other, both reason, and they do not compete for commonly required resources. They also could not be more different. Flowering plants are rooted in the ground and have no brains. Mobile honeybees can communicate the location of flower resources to other workers. We can learn from a million-year-old social relationship how morality can be constructed and maintained over time.
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Forest Family - Australian Culture, Art, And Trees

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 Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.
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Plant Contract - Art'S Return To Vegetal Life

by Prudence Gibson

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 The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
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Media, Modernity And Dynamic Plants In Early 20th Century German Culture

by Janet Janzen

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 In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the "dynamic plant" through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.
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Shaped By Vegetal Matters - Phyto-Influence On Humans, Other Animals, And Place

by Elizabeth Oriel

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 Tracing lines of vegetal influence and affect, this book describes how plants influence and shape humans and relationships on the land. The author uses four case studies to reveal multi-directional influences across situated multispecies social milieus and finds poiesis as weaving phyto-human connections.
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Shaped By Vegetal Matters - Phyto-Influence On Humans, Other Animals, And Place

by Elizabeth Oriel

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 Tracing lines of vegetal influence and affect, this book describes how plants influence and shape humans and relationships on the land. The author uses four case studies to reveal multi-directional influences across situated multispecies social milieus and finds poiesis as weaving phyto-human connections.
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Cartographies Of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics - Deleuze, Guattari, And Mathema Of Vegetality

by Abhisek Ghosal

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 Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics resorts to Deleuzo-Guattarian grammar to enunciate the productive disjunctures of vegetality while cartographizing differential repetitions of postcolonial vegetal politics.
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Cartographies Of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics - Deleuze, Guattari, And Mathema Of Vegetality

by Abhisek Ghosal

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 Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics resorts to Deleuzo-Guattarian grammar to enunciate the productive disjunctures of vegetality while cartographizing differential repetitions of postcolonial vegetal politics.
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Critical Plant Studies In Taiwan

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 This book presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan and examines human-plant entanglements on the island.
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Human-Plant Entanglement And Vegetal Agency In The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy And Sylvia Plath

by Dilek Bulut Sarikaya

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 This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poetsâ€™ botanical awareness of the vegetal agency and their attentiveness to the ethical standing of plants in human life.
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Human-Plant Entanglement And Vegetal Agency In The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy And Sylvia Plath

by Dilek Bulut Sarikaya

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 This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poetsâ€™ botanical awareness of the vegetal agency and their attentiveness to the ethical standing of plants in human life.
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Critical Plant Studies In Taiwan

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 This book presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan and examines human-plant entanglements on the island.

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