Being Algae : Transformations in Water, Plants / edited by Yogi Hale Hendlin [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hendlin, Yogi Hale, editor.

Series:

Critical plant studies ; Volume 8.

Critical Plant Studies ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-plant relationships.

Human ecology.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2024]

Summary:

This book explores how aquatic environments are as networked together by algae as the terrestrial world is by plants.

Contents:

Contents

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction Algal mor(t)ality

Chapter 1 There’s Something in the Water: Algae, Eliminativism, and Our Moral Obligations to Biological Beings

Chapter 2 Seeking an Algal Perspective: Exploring “Harmful” Algae through an Interview with Nodularia spumigena

Chapter 3 Contemplating Life, Death and Time Together with Diatoms

Chapter 4 Communicating Algae Polycultures: Photobioreactors, the Phycosphere and Its Living Waters

Chapter 5 Algae in the Human World: Beauty and Taste Come First

Chapter 6 An Investigation of Algae’s Applications, Inspired by Indigenous and Vernacular Craft Traditions

Chapter 7 Uses of and Considerations on Algae in Medieval Islamic Geography

Chapter 8 Microalgae and Human Affairs: Massive Increase in Knowledge Drives Changes in Perceptions of Good and Bad Blooms

Chapter 9 Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Algae and Imagined Indigeneity

Chapter 10 “A Seaweed Goes to War”: Agar as a Thermal Medium in C.K. Tseng’s Research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1943–1946)

Chapter 11 Augmented Polycultures: Scaling up Algal Ecosystems and Design of a Biofouling Aesthetic

Chapter 12 Phytofictions and Phytofication

Chapter 13 Seaweed as the Denizens of the New Commons in the Anthropocene

Being Algae ~ Coda

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9789004683310

9004683313