Being Algae : Transformations in Water, Plants
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| Autore: |
Hale Hendlin Yogi
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| Titolo: |
Being Algae : Transformations in Water, Plants
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| Pubblicazione: | Boston : , : BRILL, , 2024 |
| ©2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 579.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Algae - Social aspects |
| Human-plant relationships | |
| Human ecology | |
| Ecocriticism | |
| Altri autori: |
WeggelaarJohanna
DerossiNatalia
MugnaiSergio
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| Nota di contenuto: | Contents -- Figures -- 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores how aquatic environments are as networked together by algae as the terrestrial world is by plants. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Being Algae |
| ISBN: | 9789004683310 |
| 9004683313 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910842028903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Critical Plant Studies