Being Algae
Transformations in Water, Plants
Gebonden Engels 2024 9789004683303Samenvatting
Water plants of all sizes, from the 60-meter long Pacific Ocean giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) to the micro ur-plant blue-green algae, deserve attention from critical plant studies. This is the first book in environmental humanities to approach algae, swimming across the sciences, humanities, and arts, to embody the mixed nature and collaborative identity of algae.
Ranging from Medieval Islamic texts describing algae and their use, Japanese and Nordic cultural practices based in seaweed and algae, and confronting the instrumentalization of seaweed to mitigate cow methane release and the hype of algal photobioreactors, amongst many other standpoints, this volume comprehensively addresses the ancestors of terrestrial plants through appreciating their unique aquatic medium.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Algal mor(t)ality
1 There’s Something in the Water: Algae, Eliminativism, and Our Moral Obligation to Biological Beings
M. Polo Camacho and Andrew Lopez
2 Seeking an Algal Perspective: Exploring “Harmful” Algae through an Interview with Nodularia spumigena
Jesse D. Peterson
3 Contemplating Life, Death and Time Together with Diatoms
Nina Lykke
4 Communicating Algae Polycultures: Photobioreactors, the Phycosphere and Its Living Waters
Yogi Hendlin, Johanna Weggelaar, Natalia Derossi and Sergio Mugnai
5 Algae in the Human World: Beauty and Taste Come First
Ole G. Mouritsen and J. Lucas Pérez-Lloréns
6 An Investigation of Algae’s Applications, Inspired by Indigenous and Vernacular Craft Traditions
Kathryn Larsen
7 Uses of and Considerations on Algae in Medieval Islamic Geography
Mustafa Yavuz
8 Microalgae and Human Affairs: Massive Increase in Knowledge Drives Changes in Perceptions of Good and Bad Blooms
Gustaaf Hallegraeff
9 Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Algae and Imagined Indigeneity
Jon L. Pitt
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)
Melody Jue
11 Augmented Polycultures: Scaling up Algal Ecosystems and Design of a Biofouling Aesthetic
Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
12 Phytofictions and Phytofication
Julia Lohmann
13 Seaweed as the Denizens of the New Commons in the Anthropocene
Soo Jung Ryu and Cintia Organo Quintana
Being Algae ~ Coda
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
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- communicatie en media
- economie
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- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan