GREEN THREAD

The Green Thread Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of longstanding human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy agency consciousness and intelligence The leading metaphor of the book the green thread echoing poet Dylan Thomas phrase the green fuse carries multiple meanings On a more apparent level the green thread is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue On another level the green thread links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygenproducing beings In short The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants