Plant Theory.
In this review of works in the plant humanities, I focus on how five major publications from 2024 engage with and amplify some of the major concerns of the knowledge-field: considerations of plant alterity and intelligence, colonialism and its afterlives, explorations of phytophenomenology, and a pr...
| Publicado en: | Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 174 - 198 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
2025
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