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VIDEO DOI: https://doi.org/10.48448/hm0y-3997

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AAA Annual Meeting 2021

November 18, 2021

Baltimore, United States

Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: the Co-production of Plant-People Lifeworlds

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agriculture and agrarian systems

multispecies

labor/labour

With plant-anthropo-genesis we address the entanglements between plants and people over time, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic and historical research to offer new and critical insights into the ways in which plant-human lifeworlds co-produce one another -- from racializations in plantation societies to the aspirational interventions of gardeners, farmers and scientists aiming for redemption from chemical industrial agriculture. Invoking Despret’s (2004) notion of anthropo-zoo-genesis for the ways ethologists and animals become attuned to and transform one another, plant-anthropo-genesis substantiates the ‘plant turn’ extending beyond Lewis-Jones (2016). If the current moment of climate crisis, the so-called Anthropocene, originates not from fossil capital, but from the global disruption of biosocial life wrought by European imperial expansion, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the decimation of indigenous peoples by disease -- the Plantationocene -- imagining other possible futures may well benefit from embracing an aspirational Planthroposcene (Myers 2018). This roundtable covers a variety of contexts and perspectives, from how monocrops and plantations displace human lives, shape racialized existences, and naturalize social inequalities, to ritual and religious dimensions of plant-human interactions, and to the regenerative alternatives to extractivist agriculture that re-imagine plant-human relations and agro-ecological possibilities, even as various registers of global power and crises contaminate the emergent scope of plant-anthropo-worlds.

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