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===Towards a third human-plant movement? | ===Towards a third human-plant movement? | ||
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Many of the facts and references mentioned in this essay appear to be inexact or fake. Furthermore, | Many of the facts and references mentioned in this essay appear to be inexact or fake. Furthermore, | ||
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+ | In this short critical essay, Rosalind Perrez offers an analysis of the sociological and scientific facts that shaped the evolution of the human-plant (H-P) relationship over the last five decades. Proceeding from the intellectual heritage of Denis Koblak and other theoreticians of the second H-P movement, Perrez discusses the succession of paradigms that held sway over this topic since the birth of political ecology in the 1970s up to the recent events of Curitiba in 2023.\\ | ||
+ | During the last decades of the 20th century, plants were the object of numerous analogies and metaphors, most of them coinciding with a personified vision of nature – a mysterious ' | ||
- | In this short critical essay, Rosalind Perrez offers an analysis of the sociological and scientific facts that shaped the evolution of the human-plant (H-P) relationship over the last five decades. Proceeding from the intellectual heritage of Denis Koblak and other theoreticians of the second H-P movement, Perrez discusses the succession of paradigms that held sway over this topic since the birth of political ecology in the 1970s up to the recent events of Curitiba in 2023. | + | A new turn emerged in 2017, when progress in genomics revealed the plant origin of a large portion of the non-coding human genome, giving rise to the second H-P movement. But the metaphysical revolution predicted by authors like Jin-Ti Karlova never really happened, mainly because – according to Perrez – the debate has been monopolized by an academic elite, confusing the ' |
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- | During the last decades of the 20th century, plants were the object of numerous analogies and metaphors, most of them coinciding with a personified vision of nature – a mysterious ' | + | |
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- | A new turn emerged in 2017, when progress in genomics revealed the plant origin of a large portion of the non-coding human genome, giving rise to the second H-P movement. But the metaphysical revolution predicted by authors like Jin-Ti Karlova never really happened, mainly because – according to Perrez – the debate has been monopolized by an academic elite, confusing the ' | + | |
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- | But the story does not end there. Beyond an accurate analysis of the second H-P movement, Rosalind Perrez wants to convince us that the case of the ' | + | |
+ | But the story does not end there. Beyond an accurate analysis of the second H-P movement, Rosalind Perrez wants to convince us that the case of the ' | ||
related topics: [[parn]] | related topics: [[parn]] |