Dispersals : on plants, borders, and belonging /
Lee, Jessica J., 1986-
Dispersals : on plants, borders, and belonging / Jessica J. Lee. - First Catapult edition. - ix, 270 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographic references (pages 241-270).
Margin -- Border trees -- Frontier -- Sweetness -- Tidal -- Words for tea -- Dispersals -- Bitter greens -- Bean -- Sour fruit -- At the scale of water drops -- Seed -- Pinetum -- Synonyms for "mauve."
"A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being 'out of place'--weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine"--
1646221788 9781646221783
Human-plant relationships
Invasive plants
Plants, Useful
Plants--Dispersal
Essays
QK912 / .L44 2024
581.4
Dispersals : on plants, borders, and belonging / Jessica J. Lee. - First Catapult edition. - ix, 270 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographic references (pages 241-270).
Margin -- Border trees -- Frontier -- Sweetness -- Tidal -- Words for tea -- Dispersals -- Bitter greens -- Bean -- Sour fruit -- At the scale of water drops -- Seed -- Pinetum -- Synonyms for "mauve."
"A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being 'out of place'--weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine"--
1646221788 9781646221783
Human-plant relationships
Invasive plants
Plants, Useful
Plants--Dispersal
Essays
QK912 / .L44 2024
581.4