{"product_id":"care-of-the-species-9780816685301","title":"Care of the Species","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. \u003ci\u003eCare of the Species\u003c\/i\u003e walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, \u003ci\u003eCare of the Species\u003c\/i\u003e shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it.\"—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eArts of Living on a Damaged Planet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCare of the Species\u003c\/i\u003e examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques.  Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study.\"—Eben Kirksey, author of \u003ci\u003eEmergent Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Species Interiors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Maize: An Ethnohistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus \u003ci\u003eRazas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life Forms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Figure and Ground \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Knowing Plants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life Forms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: An Elegant Plant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405971988823,"sku":"9780816685301","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/care-of-the-species-9780816685301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}