Relational Transilience in the Garden: Plant–Human Encounters in More-than-Human Life Narratives
| Autor: | Alexander Vera |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Open Cultural Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 145-161 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2451-3474 2024-0031 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/culture-2024-0031 |
| Popis: | Whereas many indigenous and non-western cultures see plants and humans as connected, western worldviews tend to disregard plants as material commodities. Plant non-thinking of this kind is increasingly being challenged in response to the environmental threats arising from human exceptionalism. This essay investigates garden narratives as a form of more-than-human life writing which depicts plant–human relations as mutually transformative and reciprocal. I argue that garden narratives pioneer such a rethinking as a win-win scenario. The positive developments garden writers document are consistent with a concept put forward in environmental psychology: transilience. Making reference to five recent western garden narratives I show how plant encounters can help us move towards an emerging environmental culture which emphasises more-than-human embeddedness and embraces symbiotic over competitive relations. |
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