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Marion Ernwein is a lecturer in environmental geography at the Open University. She researches the changing place of plants in contemporary urbanism.
Franklin Ginn is a senior lecturer in cultural geography at the University of Bristol. He is author of Domestic wild: Memory, nature and gardening in suburbia, and co-editor of Environmental Humanities.
James Palmer is a lecturer in environmental governance at the University of Bristol. His research examines resource-making practices associated with new bioenergy economies and infrastructures.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Author biographies 9
List of Figures 13
Introduction: The work that plants do 15
Chapter 1 - Whose performance? Agencies in Japanese ornamental horticulture 35
Chapter 2 - Care for the commodity? The work of saving succulents in the laboratory 53
Chapter 3 - Planting Soft Pakistan 71
Chapter 4 - Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature 87
Chapter 5 - Plant labour in the ecological regime of urban maintenance: Reproduction, collaboration, uneven relations 105
Chapter 6 - Vegetal labour and the measure of value: Reckoning time and producing worth in capitalist viticulture 123
Chapter 7 - Shady work: African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), cyclones and green urban futures in Darwin, Australia 149
Chapter 8 - Forest fuels: Vegetal labour and the reinvention of working forests as carbon conveyors in the US South 163
Chapter 9 - Latent capital: Seed banking as investment in climate change futures 181
Bibliography 193