Ingrained

A Human Bio-geography of Wheat

Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-3787-1 (ISBN)

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Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our food supply and contributing to the air we breathe, but they are easy to take for granted and have received insufficient attention in the social sciences. This book advances understanding of human-plant relations using the example of wheat. Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational, more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of plant-related studies, these have not yet fully engaged with the question of what it means to be a plant. The book draws on diverse literatures to tackle this question, advancing thinking about how plants act in their worlds, and how we can better understand our shared worlds. Empirically, the book reports original ethnographic research on wheat production, processing and consumption in a context of globalisation, drought and climate change and traces the complex networks of wheat using a methodology of 'following' it and its people. The ethnobotanical study captures a number of moments in the life of Australian wheat; on the farm, at the supermarket, in the lives of coeliac sufferers, in laboratories and in industrial factories. This study demands new ways of thinking about wheat geographies, going beyond the rural landscape to urban and industrial frontiers, and being simultaneously local and global in perspective and connection.

Professor Lesley Head is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong, Australia, Dr Jennifer Atchison, (AUSCCER) is at the University of Wollongong, Australia and Dr Alison Gates (AUSCCER) is at the University of Wollongong, Australia

Chapter 1 Ingrained; Chapter 2 Reapproaching Human-Plant Geographies; Chapter 3 Becoming Wheat; Chapter 4 Spaces of Wheat; Chapter 5 Growing Wheat; Chapter 6 Mobility, Friction and Fungibility; Chapter 7 Wheat Becomes Quality Food; Chapter 8 Transformation; Chapter 9 Wheat Futures; Chapter 10 Conclusion;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.8.2012
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4094-3787-6 / 1409437876
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-3787-1 / 9781409437871
Zustand	Neuware