Tuberous Worlds: Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human Relations (Yale Agrarian Studies) - Hardcover

 
9780300281774: Tuberous Worlds: Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human Relations (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300281773 ISBN 13: 9780300281774
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A fascinating examination of "tuberous associations"--the economies, politics, and ecologies enabled by human-tuber interactions

The world is much more tuberous than most people know. From the millions of smallholder peasants cultivating tuber plants to the teams of scientists mapping potato genomic information to the industrial manufacturers selecting the best varieties for producing French fries, life unfolds in a tuber-enabled environment. This book describes the many different forms of "tuberous association"--the patterns of production, kinship, collaboration, resistance, feeding, and care that arise from and are made possible by tuberous partnerships.

Tubers are vital partners, or allies, that support life within autonomous collectives and at the same time are entwined in the extractive practices of colonization, land enclosure, and plantation--facts that reveal the complexity and contingency of vegetal politics. To explore this complexity, the contributors to this book consider an array of tuberous bodies, such as cassava, taro, yam, potato, and sweet potato, to draw out the subtleties and textures of human-tuber companionship in all their startling diversity.

By considering tubers not only as a "product" or "staple," but also as partners, kin, and ancestors--as lifeforms grafted to our own--the authors argue for a nuanced understanding of tuberous politics, economies, and ecologies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Olivia Angé is professor of anthropology at the Free University of Brussels. David Nally is professor of historical geography and fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300281773
ISBN 13 
9780300281774
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
368
Herausgeber
Ange Olivia, Nally David
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